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1. My Flames of Mercy, like Tongues of Fire, will descend on every soul soon
   On December 18, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, it is time for each of My followers to understand that My Mercy must be accepted without fear.

   I am not coming to harm or judge God’s children during The Warning. I come only to prepare them by revealing to them the truth in their hearts.

   Only by trusting in My Love and Divinity can you feel real joy and peace. If you allow fear to grip your heart, you will not be able to accept My Gift. Rejoice, for I love all of you.

   The time to celebrate My Birth is important, as fewer and fewer nations tolerate My Name. When you celebrate My Birth, you acknowledge your own salvation.

   I have given you the Gift of Freedom. Now share The Truth with others without fear in your hearts.

   When the time comes for the whole world to witness the public event of My Second Coming, you will regret not having spread My Word to lost souls.

   Please prepare your hearts and souls so that they can be cleansed in anticipation of My Promise to come again.

   Use this time in prayer. Spend time with family and those close to you. Help those who are troubled in body and spirit.

   My Flames of Mercy, like Tongues of Fire, will descend on every soul soon. You must not stop in fear or be worried. All I ask is that you are prepared at all times.
   
   Your Jesus

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2. Satan will be bound during My Reign and will no longer deceive God’s children
   On December 19, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, the world must know that the Era of Peace will be the culmination of My Promise, where I will Reign over the New Heavens and the New Earth. This will be a Spiritual Reign and My Church, the New Jerusalem, will be at peace and My Word will be heard amongst all nations.

   Satan will be bound during My Reign and will no longer deceive God’s children. This Reign, will not be a symbolic one, but where the Tree of Life will breathe Love and Peace so that all those who are blessed to enjoy My New Paradise will not suffer death even when Satan will be released, albeit for a short time, at the end of this period.

   My Plan is according to the Will of My Father and no man has the right to deny the Will of God.

   Make no mistake, you must accept the Word of God which is contained in My Father’s Book because if you do not then you will be deceived as to the prophecies given to man since time began.

   Follow only My Path. Accept My Promises. Do not doubt Me for you will insult Me. You either, accept Me as your Saviour and trust in Me completely, or not at all.

   My Word is the Truth. The Truth will, when accepted by every living soul, be the key to freedom and to the Gates of My New Paradise.
   
   Your Jesus

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3. I died for you. Because of this you must trust Me now
   On December 19, 2012 @ 9:00 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, I must warn you that criticism will mount against you and My Word, given to you at this time.

   You must not allow distractions or doubts to stop you from imparting every single Word I give you. Man must never doubt the prophecies handed down since the day of Moses. Not one prophecy contains untruths.

   Now as I reveal to the world the secrets and My plans for humanity, kept from you, up to now, do not turn away. For I present to you now many things still to come, which you, My disciples, must be informed of, so that you do not fail to prepare for My Glorious Return.

   Let no one deny themselves the gift I bring of eternal life. Those amongst you, fortunate to enter the New Era when Heaven and Earth will become one, must follow the Path of Truth.

   Now is the time for your faith in Me, your Saviour, to be truly challenged and tested. You will soon be bullied into rejecting My Messages. Every effort will be made to force you to reject My Word and to declare the Truth to be heresy.

   Turn your minds now to My Birth. To the Teachings I gave humanity so that they could learn how to prepare their souls. To the Sacrifice made by My Death on the Cross to salvage souls.

   I died for you. Because of this you must trust Me now.

   I Am the Light, which shines down upon the path you must walk. On either side of this path, evil spirits will pull at you, torment you, try to get you to walk back the same way you came and into the darkness. They will do this through the taunts of others who will pull you apart because of your loyalty to these Messages.

   You must stay in silent meditation, read My Word and feel My Presence. Allow My Holy Spirit to calm your heart and feel My Love envelop you. As your pain intensifies, because of this Mission, know that you are in full union with Me, your Jesus.

   Never give up. Do not reject My Hand of Mercy. Allow Me to embrace you in order to give you the courage needed to continue on this journey with Me until the day I come to reward you.
   
   Your beloved Jesus

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4. God the Father: The time for great change, for the good of all, is upon you
   On December 20, 2012 @ 7:15 pm
   
   My dearest daughter, I call on all My children to uphold the Name of My only Son, Jesus Christ, and show Him the honour, which has been accorded to Him amongst humanity.

   My Angels in My Holy Kingdom, ring out and rejoice because of the Mercy, which is to be granted to all, through My Son.

   This great Divine Gift will be used to vanquish the darkness, which covers the world. It will be by My Divine Intervention that I will be able to save most of My children.

   This Christmas, a time of great rejoicing as you celebrate the birth of the Saviour I gave the world, is a turning point in the history of the human race.

   As your Father, I bless you all and bestow, with a deep compassion, this great Gift of Mercy. I gather you, all of My Creation, so that I can cleanse you of every doubt, every sin and every blasphemy against the Laws of My Kingdom.

   This great cleansing of the earth will take some time, but I will hasten these times of persecution.

   Your suffering, by the hands of corrupt governments, who do not accept My Laws, will be difficult but will not last too long.

   I will give all of My enemies time to open their eyes to the Truth of the glorious Paradise I have awaiting to unveil to the world.

   Rejoice. Praise My Son, for it is because of Him, that I present the New Paradise where the Reign, promised to Him by Me, will evolve.

   The time for great change, for the good of all, is upon you.

   My Power will be shown in all its strength and glory for the world to witness.

   I Am the Beginning. I Am the End. My New Kingdom, the New Paradise, will finally replace the old. The earth was tarnished by the sin of Adam and Eve.

   The perfect creation of man was destroyed when sin brought to an end the Gift of immortality. Soon I will reverse all that was sullied by the contamination caused by Satan and his demons. They will no longer be masters of temptation.

   I will now send My Son to reclaim the Throne, which was created for Him.

   The battle for this Throne is fierce, but My Power prevails and every miracle will be used to bring My Family back safely into the Divine Sacred Heart of My Son.

   You are, My children, lost and in pain. Now I send My Son to begin the process to take you to your rightful home.

   I love you, dearest children of Mine. I have never forsaken you, although you could be forgiven for believing this.

   You are now being called. No man will be excluded from this announcement from Heaven.

   Pray, children, that all will respond to My Son’s Mercy.
   
   Your beloved Father
   God the Most High

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5. Dear Christians,

   FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

   Born of the Virgin Mary

   487 “What the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it believes about Christ, and what it teaches about Mary illumines in turn its faith in Christ.”

   Remember,those who celebrate the birth of our Savior also work for the salvation of their own soul.

   Merry Christmas to all!

   Jesus King of Mercy i Trust in You!

   Ave Maria!

6. but in john 2:4
   God says mary ‘women what have i to do with thee?mine hour is not yet come’
   so jesus says ‘women’not mother so jesus is the only god and we should woriship him only

7. My Love for humanity is felt by many. Sadly, those who do not look for it will not find it
   On December 21, 2012 @ 10:20 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, to love Me is simple. You do not have to be learned in Holy Scripture. All you need to do is this.

   Call to Me, even when in doubt about My Existence. I will fill you with My Presence unexpectedly. You will feel a Love like never before. And then you will know The Truth.
   I Am real. I Am there and I love each of you. True love pierces your heart with a powerful emotion of attachment. It is a two-way gift. You will love Me and you will wonder how can this be?

   My Love for humanity is felt by many. Sadly, those who do not look for it will not find it. To those who still find themselves wandering away from Me, all you need to do is call upon Me, so that I can enlighten your soul.

   My birth heralded the proof of My Father’s Love for the human race. He sent Me, your Saviour, because of His Love for you.

   Love is not something you should ever take for granted, as it is the greatest Gift from God. It transcends every other feeling and can defeat evil if you would only embrace it.

   My Spirit of Love, My Protection covers you at this special time. You are Mine. I Am in your heart. All you need do is to allow My Love to fill you because when you do you will feel true peace.

   I bless all of you.
   
   Your Jesus

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8. My Word will be like a sword which will cut through confusion and lies.
   On December 21, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, the time for My Teachings and My Holy Messages to be spread into every corner of the world, is now.

   I will ensure that the Book of Truth, promised to the world, will be ready in every nation and every language.

   My disciples and My Sacred Servants will preach from the four corners of the earth.

   Billions will follow My Word and many will, finally, read the Holy Gospel.

   My Father’s Book, the Holy Bible, will be revisited and My Word will be read again.

   Now, My Messages today, contained in the Book of Truth will be food, which will be fed to God’s children when it will be deemed illegal to read the Holy Word of God in the future.

   You, My disciples, must convert those who do not know Me. If they do not know Who I Am, they cannot prepare themselves properly for My New Kingdom.

   My Word will be like a sword, which will cut through confusion and lies. It will touch the minds, hearts and the souls of all.

   Some will take time to digest My Word, but most of the world’s population will accept the Truth, once they are given it.

   Please pray for the courage, the strength and the will to do what it is that I ask of you. Remind them that I died for them. Tell them that the time for Me to come again is soon. Comfort them by revealing to them the great Gift of the New Paradise I Am to reveal.

   Tell them that I Am coming to save them and to end their suffering.
   
   Your Jesus

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9. I shower you with this Special Blessing today
   On December 22, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
   
   My dearly beloved daughter, Christmas Day is My Gift to humanity. It is because of this day that eternal life became possible for mortal man.

   I, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the World, welcome you all, God’s children, into the Kingdom promised to Me by My Father.

   I came into the world unknown by but a few. My Birth changed the future. My Promise was accepted by My followers. They knew that I would come again but had no idea when. They listened to My Teachings, although many of them were not learned men. They were poor and lived simple lives. Yet, they were the ones who welcomed Me.

   The same will be true now when I prepare you for My Second Coming. It will be those souls with a simple love for Me who will open their hearts to My Call. And it will be those amongst you, humble of heart and pure of soul, who become My disciples of today. It will be through you, just as it was when I walked the earth, that My Word will be heard and believed.

   I shower you with this Special Blessing today. I desire that you accept My Blessing of Protection through this, Crusade Prayer to welcome Me, the Messiah, as I will unveil My New Kingdom.

   Crusade Prayer (90) Thanksgiving for Your Most Glorious Second Coming

   O My Jesus, I offer You praise and thanksgiving for Your Most Glorious Second Coming.

   You, my Saviour, were born to give me Eternal Life and to free me from sin.

   I offer You my love, my thanks and my adoration as I prepare my soul for Your Great Coming.

   Amen.

   Go now and prepare. For the times are short and much is needed to be done in order to salvage every soul.

   I bring you Peace, Love and Joy on this special day.

   Your Jesus

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10. #1816

    Remember,those who celebrate the birth of our Savior also work for the salvation of their own soul

    The Bible does not teach a “works” based salvation. Ephesians 2:8-9 is crystal clear on the subject. The Roman Catholic Church preaches a “false/perverted” sacramental gospel of works which is not the true gospel of Christ preached by St.Paul at 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. The Roman Catholic gospel is “cursed” by God. It does not have the power to save a soul. St.Paul makes it clear in his epistle to the Galatians church, where he wrote that certain people perverted the Gospel of Christ which he delivered to some other Gospel not of Christ. Read Chapter 1 of the epistle to the Galatians. Thre were certain people who were perverting the true gospel of Christ by making circumcision mandatory. St Paul is clear we cannot add “works” or human effort to merit salvation and pervert the free grace gospel of Christ which is to be received by “faith onlly”. The Bible teaches we are saved FOR good works and not saved BY good works. Catholics unknowingly are led to put their trust in a false perveted gospel that is useless and has no power to save. We are saved not at baptism, the bible teaches we are reconciled to God and saved by the blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). Redemption and salvation is based only on the merits of Christ sacrificial death on the cross. A person is saved by admitting the guilt of his sin, godly repentance toward God, and sincerely with all his heart believe trusting by faith the true gospel message of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)and the same time acknowledging that Jesus is the son of God in-carnate in the flesh died on the cross while we were yet sinners and that he only is the way to heaven (John 14:6).

11. What Roman Catholics have been taught to believe concerning salvation is in opposition to what the Bible teaches. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that works are needed for salvation, which in essence is a false gospel. The gospel of the Roman Catholic Church on salvation and justification is a false gospel, and it is not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

12. what’s the confusion? Its all got to do on the interpretation of the terms JUSTIFICTION, SANCITIFCAT

13. what’s the confusion? Its all got to do on the interpretation of the terms JUSTIFICATION, SANCITIFCATION and GLORIFICATION. The Roman Catholic church twists the meanings of these important doctrines ‘cleverly’ disguies to trip-up the unsuspecting with all cunningness and craftiness. See what the Bible says on these terms and then make a comparison what the RC Church means by these terms. One will ten see the glaring differences come to light. All cult religions of the world cleverly hoodwink the followers. Its not only in the RC Church, its also happening in many evangelical churches.

14. The family unit, and the destruction of it, will be at the root of everything
    On December 23, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, many of those sacred servants of Mine, are to face a terrible challenge. This will be one, which will convince them to take one of two separate paths. It will be up to each, by his own free will, as to which path he must choose. For the abomination will make itself known shortly.

    Many of My sacred servants will not be immediately aware of what is happening, at first. It will only be when they read letters, given to them from those in high places, that they will find difficulty.

    Those who uphold My Holy Word, given to man through the Gift of the Holy Bible, will be challenged and urged to accept amendments. These amendments will be given to them and they will be expected to swallow them, and accept them as The Truth. They amount to one thing.

    They will urge those Holy sacred servants of Mine, to accept tolerance of sin.

    They will be told that God is an ever merciful God and that He loves everyone. Yes this part is true. But then, they will be instructed to condone laws, which are an abomination in My Eyes. The family unit, and the destruction of it, will be at the root of everything.

    Others will be asked to accept a new type of ceremony which will replace the Mass and the Presence of My Holy Eucharist.

    It will be deemed as an all-inclusive move to join all Christians and other religions as one.This will be the beginning of the end.

    The day the daily Sacrifices of the Mass are cut will be the beginning of all events to unfold, as foretold to John the Evangelist. It will be the time of the rise of the beast and his influence will be great. He will win over the hearts and souls of many priests. His aim is to stop all Masses and to desecrate the Holy Eucharist.

    He already does this, through black masses, held in many Catholic Churches. The core of disloyal servants is plotting against My Church and they will mislead many.

    Be alert. Open your eyes and beg Me for the strength you are going to need, in order to stand up against this vile and wicked plan.

    This battle within My Church on earth will be vicious. Priest against priest. Bishop against Bishop. Cardinal against Cardinal.

    Let it be known that those amongst you, My sacred servants, who know me and love Me, I will lead you. I will guide you. I will give you the strength to deal with these enemies of God. You are not alone.

    You must never listen to lies, given or presented to you, in My Holy Name. Only you know the Truth in your hearts. Listen to your heart. Remain loyal to all that you have been told is the Law of God.

    If you are presented with anything which seems to be in contradiction of My Teachings, then you must turn your back.
    
    Your Jesus

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15. Dear Sam, #1821,to 1824:

    First of all what’s a fuss about celebrating the birth of our Savior? Have you not experience in your entire life to celebrate your own birthday and your loved ones birthday? What’s the confusion? The one who is confuse here is you…just like king Herod, ( Mathew 2:3) “when king Herod heard this he was perturbed…”, He asked the wise men,(Mathew 2:8); ‘Go and find out all about the child, and when you have found him, let me know , so that I too may go and do him homage.” Though we know in reality that Herod wanted to subdue the child, (Mathew 2:14); “because Herod intends to search the child and do away with him.” Sam I pity you a lot for failing to understand a very simple message about celebrating the birth of our Redeemer. Are you not celebrating the birth of your Savior Jesus the Christ?

    You seem hell bent to enter into arguments by laying down your premises quoted biblical about faith and good works. And I quote…
    “The Bible does not teach a “works” based salvation. Ephesians 2:8-9 is crystal clear on the subject. The Roman Catholic Church preaches a “false/perverted” sacramental gospel of works which is not the true gospel of Christ preached by St.Paul at 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. The Roman Catholic gospel is “cursed” by God.”

    Sam, I know (James 2:19-20); “you believe in one God-(that is Faith)- that is creditable enough, but the demons have the same belief, and they tremble with fear. Do realize, you senseless man that faith without good deeds is useless.” Now are you brave enough to nullify the words of God in the scriptures? There were too many verses in the scriptures for you to nullify then! You are a classic example of a man who select few verses and bring out an open gospel as if enough for our daily life consumption.

    This “faith”, though prompted by the will, is an act of grace. Though necessary for salvation, it is not sufficient. That is why James says, “You see now that is by doing something good, and not only by believing, that a man is justified.” (James 2:24)

    The word faith was also used in two different senses. It included repentance, faith, hope, and charity. This is the sense Saint Paul uses in Romans. But in 1 Corinthians 13, Paul uses it in a more specific sense, as just one of the three theological virtues, with hope and charity added to it. In narrower sense then that faith alone is not sufficient for salvation of our souls, for hope and charity must also played the crucial role. Faith is the root that holds the soil in the beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the visible product, the bottom line of our good deeds. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love. That is clearly the biblical view, Jesus is saying, in plain language, that His teaching does not contradict the Old Covenant law, but it is the ultimate fulfillment of its spiritual intent. Even in the smallest matter, the law must be fulfilled.

    Notice where His statement appears. Matthew places it immediately after Jesus’ exhortation, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works” (Matthew 5:16-20). What if our works are good? Are we supposed to hide them? Is there a connection between good works and keeping the law? One would have to be quite obstinate to believe there is no connection between them. It is obvious that He is connecting good works with law keeping.

    Paul prayed that the Colossians might “have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:10). Through every good work a disciple bears fruit to the glory of God.

    Paul told Titus: “And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful” (Titus 3:14). A disciple bears fruit by doing good deeds and helping those in need.John the Baptist also emphasized the necessity of fruitfulness: “Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance” (Luke 3:8).

    He warned unrighteous Jews who trusted in their linage for salvation: “And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire” (Luke 3:9). When the people asked: “What shall we do then?” he told them to share their abundance with the needy: “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise” (Luke 3:10,11).

    Jesus gave a similar warning: “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away” (John 15:2). He also taught the importance of bearing fruit in the parables of the unfruitful fig tree and of the sower.

    “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down'” (Luke 13:6-9).

    When explaining the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:18-23), Jesus said: “Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful” (Matthew 13:22).

    These were few verses for your additional information that you must take into account not by just faith alone because the words “FAITH ALONE” is nowhere to be found in the scriptures, it is unbiblical per se! The only time you actually do see the words faith and alone / (only), together in a sentence is in James 2:24, where James says, “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone / (only)”. (James 2:24)

    Jesus king of Mercy I Trust in you!

    Ave Maria!

16. #1826 – you must not simply “read into” the text of scriptures to interpret the Bible. Yes you won’t find the literal words “faith alone” in the text of the scriptures neither will you find the literal word “Trinity”. However this does not mean that the concepts are not taught in the text of the scriptures. Salvation is found in Christ alone – for he only is author of salvation. Do you have a problem with Christ being the sole dispenser of salvation by grace? (See Acts 4:12, Ephesians 1:13). Salvation in the bible is by faith in the blood atonement of Christ alone. All what James talks about good works come “after” one is saved. The fruits of ones’ salvation comes after one’s saved. However all man-created religions (includes Roman Catholicism) which Jesus himself did not approve, teach we have to earn the gift of salvation by doing good works. Salvation in the bible cannot be earned. Rome’s false gospel cannot save your soul. Sorry about that!

    The Roman Catholic Church’s False Gospel

    What is the Gospel?

    The Bible says that it is the power of God unto Salvation… (Romans 1:16) Therefore, a church’s “gospel” is what that church teaches about how people receive Salvation-how they are saved from sins and get to heaven.

    The Roman Catholic Church teaches a false gospel:

    Its gospel is the very opposite of the Bible’s Gospel. I will prove that to you here. (Please remember: I am not being unkind to Roman Catholics. I am telling them the truth from the Bible so that they can be saved and go to heaven when they die. It’s the Roman Catholic Church that is unkind to Catholics because it willfully keeps them in darkness by teaching false doctrine, which is totally unsupported by the Bible, that leaves Catholics bound by Satan, lost in their sins, and doomed to eternal hell.)

    All of the quotes used in this article come directly from the Roman Catholic Catechism

    You can verify this for yourself: Just look up each of the following doctrines using the current Roman Catholic Catechism online. You just need to copy and paste the paragraph numbers, which will be listed below, into the search box on the Catechism web site. You can simply click here to go to the Roman Catholic Catechism web site)

    The Roman Catholic Catechism is published and distributed by the Roman Catholic Church and is considered authoritative regarding Catholic doctrine. One Roman Catholic Source said, “ …The essence of our Roman Catholic Church is enshrined in the CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (Latest Edition 1997), which comprehensively presents the true Deposit of Faith proclaimed by God’s Revelation” (http://www.catholicmediacoalition.org/catechism%20orlando.htm).

    Proof that the Roman Catholic Church’s Gospel is False:

    I. The Roman Catholic Church’s gospel is FALSE because it teaches that baptism saves:

    1272* Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ. Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark (character) of his belonging to Christ. No sin can erase this mark, even if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation. Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated.

    1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation. …The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are “reborn of water and the Spirit.” God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.

    1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; …Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word.”

    I. The Bible does NOT teach that Baptism Saves. In this section, I will use the truth from the Bible to refute the Roman Catholic Church’s false doctrine about baptism:

    The Bible says: The sinner can only be saved one way. His sins, which are many, must be atoned for (paid for). For baptism to save, it must have the power to wash away sins, but the Bible tells us that only ONE thing can wash away sins! The following verses constitute only a small portion of proof from the Bible that could be marshaled to prove that sins are washed away only by the blood of Jesus Christ.

    And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness and first begotten of the dead who washed us from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5).

    Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the camp (Hebrews 13:12 ).

    And almost all things are by the law purged with blood: and without shedding of blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22 ).

    Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (I Peter 1:18-19)

    But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13).

    II. The Roman Catholic Church’s gospel is FALSE because it teaches that we can save ourselves and others through works:

    980 It is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized can be reconciled with God and with the Church: …”a laborious kind of baptism.” This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism…

    1479 Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted.

    1815 The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. But “faith apart from works is dead”: when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his Body.

    1475 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others … Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.

    II. The Bible does NOT teach that our works can save us. Therefore, the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine about works is unbiblical and, hence, false. Following, you will find several of the literally dozens of Bible passages that PROVE that works do NOT save:

    The Bible says: If we rely upon works (either our own or those of anyone other than Jesus Christ) to save us from our sins, we only earn further condemnation (This means we make our situation WORSE with God by trying to earn salvation by our own works; our debt before God only grows larger).

    Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Romans 4:2-5).

    But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law… (Romans 9:30?).

    Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified (Galatians 2:16).

    For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast (Eph 2:8-9)

    III. The Roman Catholic Church’s gospel is false because it uses the Eucharist to offer further sacrifice for sins:

    1414 As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.

    1689 The Eucharistic Sacrifice. …In the Eucharist, the Church expresses her efficacious communion with the departed:… offering to the Father in the Holy Spirit the sacrifice of the death and resurrection of Christ, she asks to purify his child of his sins and their consequences… It is by the Eucharist… that the community of the faithful, especially the family of the deceased, learn to live in communion with the one who “has fallen asleep in the Lord,” by communicating in the Body of Christ…

    1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: … only the manner of offering is different.” “And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory [has the power to make God ready and able to forgive you of sin].”

    III. The Bible does NOT teach that we need to offer up further sacrifice for sins. The Bible could NOT be clearer on this subject. The Roman Catholic Church knows this and can only support its teaching by playing word games: It states that the Eucharist and Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross are “ONE SINGLE SACRIFICE.” In this section, we will examine this important issue in light of the truth of the Bible:

    The Bible says: Ye shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall make you free (John 8:32, emphasis added). We must first of all understand that the Roman Catholic Church is not telling the truth, it is not being honest in its use of terms. It says that Jesus sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are “ONE SINGE SACRIFICE” (1367). It does not deny that the Eucharist is a sacrifice. It simply attempts to make its sacrifice, the Eucharist, and God’s sacrifice for sins, Jesus’ death on the cross, the SAME sacrifice. In order for this to really be true, though, the sacrifice of the Eucharist would have to actually be the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross of Calvary. Yet is that the truth? Are the sacrifice of the Eucharist and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross REALLY the same sacrifice, are they really a SINGLE sacrifice?

    The Bible says: Only Jesus’ actual sacrifice has the power to save. It alone is sufficient; no other sacrifice is necessary:

    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:10-14)
    For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God (Romans 6:10 ).

    For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit (I Peter 3:18).

    There is no Biblical basis, proof, or support for the Roman Catholic’s sacrifice of the Eucharist; therefore, it must be rejected as an unbiblical, man-made doctrine with no power to wash away sins.

    IV. The Roman Catholic Church’s gospel is false because it teaches that Mary also, rather than Christ ALONE, saves:

    494 …As St. Irenaeus says, “Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.”…

    969 “… Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us gifts of eternal salvation. … Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”

    966 “…In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.”

    968 Her role in relation to the Church and to all humanity goes still further. “In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Savior’s work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace.”

    IV. The Roman Catholic Church’s False Gospel that Mary Saves Refuted:

    The Bible Says: Jesus did NOT need any help saving us from our sins:

    [Jesus] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Hebrews 1:3).

    Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and men. NO ONE else can have that role: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;(I Timothy 2:5).

    Salvation is only through ONE Savior with only ONE name, Jesus Christ: Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

    Mary is NOT God, and the Bible says that ONLY God is Savior: I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour (Isaiah 43:11).

    Mary was a sinner just like every other human being. In the Bible, Mary, herself, admits that she too needed a Savior: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour (Luke 1:47)

    The false Gospel of the Roman Catholic Church does not have the power to save sinners from their sins; it does not have the power to give the gift of eternal life.

17. How Rome Denies Salvation by Grace Alone
    Feb/16/09 07:14 Filed in: Roman Catholicism
    Republished February 16, 2009 (first published September 5, 1998) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) –

    In ecumenical circles the claim is made with increasing frequency that Rome now accepts the doctrine of justification by grace alone. The recently approved agreement between the Lutheran World Federation and the Vatican, the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification,” makes this claim. Many supporters of the Promise Keepers movement have written to me making this claim. Those who promote the idea that there are “Evangelical Catholics” often make this claim.

    That the Roman Catholic Church does NOT believe in salvation by grace alone through faith alone by the finished atonement of Jesus Christ alone is evident in the following indisputable facts:

    JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE ALONE DENIED BY TRENT

    At the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the declarations of which are still in force, the Roman Catholic Church formally condemned the biblical doctrine of faith alone and grace alone. Consider the following declarations of Trent:

    “If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in divine mercy, which remits sins for Christ’s sake, or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Sixth Session, Canons Concerning Justification, Canon 12).

    “If anyone says that the justice received is not preserved and also not increased before God through good works, but that those works are merely the fruits and signs of justification obtained, but not the cause of its increase, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Sixth Session, Canons Concerning Justification, Canon 24).

    JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE ALONE DENIED BY VATICAN II

    In its most formal and authoritative statements since Trent, Rome has continued to deny that salvation is by grace alone through Christ’s atonement alone through faith alone without works or sacraments. Consider the following statements of the authoritative Vatican II Council of the mid-1960s, called by Pope John Paul XXIII and attended by more than 2,400 Catholic bishops-–

    “For it is the liturgy through which, especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, ‘the work of our redemption is accomplished,’ and it is through the liturgy, especially, that the faithful are enabled to express in their lives and manifest to others the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Introduction, para. 2).

    “As often as the sacrifice of the cross by which ‘Christ our Pasch is sacrificed’ (1 Cor. 5:7) is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out” (Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Chapter 1, 3, p. 324).

    “… [Christ] also willed that the work of salvation which they preached should be set in train through the sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical [ritualistic] life revolves. Thus by Baptism men are grafted into the paschal mystery of Christ. … They receive the spirit of adoption as sons” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Chap. 1, I, 5,6, pp. 23-24).

    “From the most ancient times in the Church good works were also offered to God for the salvation of sinners, particularly the works which human weakness finds hard. Because the sufferings of the martyrs for the faith and for God’s law were thought to be very valuable, penitents used to turn to the martyrs to be helped by their merits to obtain a more speedy reconciliation from the bishops. Indeed, the prayers and good works of holy people were regarded as of such great value that it could be asserted that the penitent was washed, cleansed and redeemed with the help of the entire Christian people” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Apostolic Constitution on the Revision of Indulgences, chap. 3, 6, pp. 78,79).

    ROME DENIES SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE IN ITS DEFINITION OF JUSTIFICATION

    Rome’s gospel is a confused combination of faith plus works, grace plus sacraments, Christ plus the church. It redefines grace to include works. It confuses justification with sanctification. It confuses imputation with impartation. It views justification not as a once-for-all legal declaration whereby the sinner is declared righteous before God and is granted eternal life as the unmerited gift of God, but as a PROCESS whereby the sinner is gradually saved through participation in the sacraments. There is no eternal security in the Roman gospel because salvation allegedly depends partially upon a man’s works. According to Roman Catholic theology, Christ purchased salvation and gave it to the Catholic Church to be distributed to men through its sacraments. This is not only a false gospel, it is a blasphemous usurpation of Christ’s position as only Lord and Savior and Mediator. The authoritative Addis and Arnold Catholic Dictionary, with the Imprimature (ecclesiastical authorization for printing) of E. Morrough Bernard, 1950, says justification “consists, not in the mere remission of sins, but in the sanctification and renewal of the inner man by the voluntary reception of God’s grace and gifts” This dictionary plainly states that the Roman Catholic doctrine of justification is contrary to that of the Reformation, noting that “the Council of Trent was at pains to define most clearly and explicitly the Catholic tradition on the matter, placing it in sharp opposition to the contrary tenets of the Reformers.” Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia, published in 1991, defines justification as “THE PROCESS by which a sinner is made righteous, pure and holy before God.” “Justification in the Catholic Tradition comes about by means of faith in Christ, AND in a life of good works lived in response to God’s invitation to believe. … That works are clearly required in the New Testament for union with Christ is seen in the many parables such as the Good Samaritan, Lazarus and Dives, and others” (emphasis added).

    ROME DENIES SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE IN DOZENS OF OTHER WAYS

    Not only in most authoritative declarations and not only by its definition of justification, but in dozens of other ways Rome denies the once-for-all sufficiency of Christ’s atonement, His sole mediatorship, and the doctrine of salvation through faith alone by grace alone without works.

    Rome denies justification by grace alone BY ITS DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMAL REGENERATION. The New Catholic Catechism (1994) dogmatically declares: “The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are ‘reborn of water and the Spirit.’ God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism…” (1257).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone BY ITS DOCTRINE OF THE MASS, by claiming that in the mass “the sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated” and “the work of our redemption is carried out” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone BY ITS DOCTRINE OF THE SACRAMENTS: “The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. … The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Saviour” (New Catholic Catechism, 1129).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone BY ITS DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY, claiming that “the doctrine of purgatory clearly demonstrates that even when the guilt of sin has been taken away, punishment for it or the consequences of it may remain to be expiated or cleansed” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS DOCTRINE OF CONFESSION. “One who desires to obtain reconciliation with God and with the Church, must confess to a priest all the unconfessed grave sins he remembers after having carefully examined his conscience” (New Catholic Catechism, 1493). “Individual and integral confession of grave sins followed by absolution remains the only ordinary means of reconciliation with God and with the Church” (New Catholic Catechism, 1497). “The sacrament of Penance restores and strengthens in members of the Church who have sinned the fundamental gift of … conversion to the kingdom of Christ, which is first received in Baptism” (Vatican II, Decree on Confession for Religious).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS DOCTRINE OF THE PAPACY: “For ‘God’s only-begotten Son … has won a treasure for the militant Church … he has entrusted it to blessed Peter, the key-bearer of heaven, and to his successors who are Christ’s vicars on earth, so that they may distribute it to the faithful for their salvation’“ (ellipsis are in the original) (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Apostolic Constitution on the Revision of Indulgences, Chap. 4, 7, p. 80).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS PRIESTHOOD: “The purpose then for which priests are consecrated by God through the ministry of the bishop is that they should be made sharers in a special way in Christ’s priesthood and, by carrying out sacred functions, act as his ministers who through his Spirit continually exercises his priestly function for our benefit in the liturgy. By Baptism priests introduce men into the People of God; by the sacrament of Penance they reconcile sinners with God and the Church; by the Anointing of the sick they relieve those who are ill; and especially by the celebration of Mass they offer Christ’s sacrifice sacramentally” (Vatican II, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, chap. 2, I, 5, p. 781).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS DOCTRINE OF MARY: “In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the Saviour’s work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace” (New Catholic Catechism, 968). “… Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us gifts of eternal salvation. … Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix” (New Catholic Catechism, 969).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS DOCTRINE OF THE SAINTS: “Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin” (New Catholic Catechism, 1475).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone and the sole Mediatorship of Christ BY ITS DOCTRINE OF FORGIVENESS THROUGH THE CHURCH: “There is no offense, however serious, that the Church cannot forgive. … Christ who died for all men desires that in his Church the gates of forgiveness should always be open to anyone who turns away from sin” (New Catholic Catechism, 982).

    Rome denies justification by grace alone BY ITS DOCTRINE OF INDULGENCES: “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. … Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead” (New Catholic Catechism, 1471).

    CONCLUSION

    Rome has not changed its doctrinal position or its claims to be the one, true, holy, apostolic church. It is engaged, rather, in a clever ploy. It is using the ecumenical movement to bring the separated sons home to the papa (which is the meaning of the term pope), and it is succeeding brilliantly. The amazing fact is that Rome has not hidden its goal in ecumenical relations. Consider the following statement from Vatican II:

    “The term ‘ecumenical movement’ indicates the initiatives and activities encouraged and organized, according to the various needs of the [Roman] Church and as opportunities offer, to promote Christian unity. … The results will be that, little by little, as the obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical communion are overcome, ALL CHRISTIANS WILL BE GATHERED IN A COMMON CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST, INTO THE UNITY OF THE ONE AND ONLY CHURCH, which Christ bestowed on his Church from the beginning. THE UNITY, WE BELIEVE, SUBSISTS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS SOMETHING SHE CAN NEVER LOSE” (emphasis added) (Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism, chap. 1, 4, p. 416).

    For those who claim to be Evangelical Catholics and who claim to believe that salvation is by grace alone, I say you are deceiving yourself and others by remaining in the Roman Catholic Church which explicitly denies what you claim to believe. God’s curse is upon those who preach a false gospel and Rome certainly falls under that curse. The Bible warns that those who affiliate with error become partakers with that error.

18. WHAT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT SALVATION

    A growing number of Roman Catholics are familiar with biblical terminology about salvation, such as born again, and some have been trained to reply affirmatively to the question, “Are you saved? Have you been born again?”

    The problem is that they do not mean by this what the Bible means. Rome’s doctrine of salvation is not full and sure salvation through personal faith in Christ. It is a gospel of works that is sometimes presented under the guise of grace.

    THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH’S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION CAN BE SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS:

    Rome’s gospel centers in the Catholic Church, the pope, and the sacraments. While Catholicism teaches that Christ died on the cross to purchase man’s salvation, it is not satisfied simply to invite men to receive this salvation by faith directly from the resurrected Christ. Rome teaches that Christ, having purchased redemption by His blood and death, delivered it to the Catholic Church to be distributed to men. Consider the following quotes from the Vatican II Council:

    “For ‘God’s only-begotten Son … has won a treasure for the militant Church … he has entrusted it to blessed Peter, the key-bearer of heaven, and to his successors who are Christ’s vicars on earth, so that they may distribute it to the faithful for their salvation. They may apply it with mercy for reasonable causes to all who have repented for and have confessed their sins. At times they may remit completely, and at other times only partially, the temporal punishment due to sin in a general as well as in special ways (insofar as they judge it to be fitting in the sight of the Lord). The merits of the Blessed Mother of God and of all the elect … are known to add further to this treasury’” (ellipsis are in the original) (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Apostolic Constitution on the Revision of Indulgences, Chap. 4, 7, p. 80).

    “For it is through Christ’s Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help towards salvation, that the fulness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the people of God” (Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism, chap. 1, 3, p. 415).

    ROME’S PLAN OF SALVATION HAS SEVERAL STEPS

    The First Step is Baptism. According to Rome, salvation begins with baptism. It can be infant baptism for those born into Catholic homes or adult baptism for those who approach the Roman Church later in life. Either way, the Catholic Church teaches that through baptism a person receives spiritual life.

    “By the sacrament of Baptism, whenever it is properly conferred in the way the Lord determined and received with the proper dispositions of soul, man becomes truly incorporated into the crucified and glorified Christ and is reborn to a sharing of the divine life” (Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism, chap. 3, II, 22, p. 427).

    Next Steps are the Other Church Sacraments.

    After baptism a person is considered to be born again and part of the body of Christ, the Church. This new life is said to be nurtured and kept alive through Confirmation, Mass, Penance and the other sacraments.

    “Just as Christ was sent by the Father so also he sent the apostles … that they might preach the Gospel to every creature and proclaim that the Son of God by his death and resurrection had freed us from the power of Satan and from death, and brought us into the Kingdom of his Father. But he also willed that the work of salvation which they preached SHOULD BE SET IN TRAIN THROUGH THE SACRIFICE AND SACRAMENTS, around which the entire liturgical [ritualistic] life revolves” (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Chap. 1, I, 5,6, pp. 23-24).

    “THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS ARE THE NECESSARY MEANS ESTABLISHED BY CHRIST THROUGH WHICH HIS REDEEMING, LIFE-GIVING, SANCTIFYING GRACE IS IMPARTED TO INDIVIDUALS’ SOULS. You must centre your life upon the sacraments established by Christ if you want to save your soul. means of salvation. … The sacraments are the source of your real life, the divine life that will unite you with God in this world and in eternity. Let nothing make you think that you can get along without the sacraments. Without them your soul must die. … IF YOU DON’T RECEIVE THE SACRAMENTS AT ALL, YOU DON’T RECEIVE GRACE. If you don’t receive them properly, that is, if you receive them seldom and with little devotion, you receive less grace” (L.G. Lovasik, The Eucharist in Catholic Life, pp. 14,15).

    Thus we see that the Roman Catholic plan of salvation is faith in Christ PLUS baptism PLUS continuing in the sacraments.

    ROME TEACHES THAT SALVATION IS BY THE GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST AND IS THROUGH FAITH, BUT IT DENIES THAT IT IS BY GRACE AND FAITH ALONE.

    Let us hear this in the words of a modern Catholic theologian. The following statement is made by a Roman priest well known for his emphasis upon the necessity for personal faith in the exercise of the sacraments, yet he is careful to remind us that the sacraments are as necessary as the faith.

    “In recent years the church has reiterated again and again that we are saved by faith AND the sacraments of faith. BOTH ARE NECESSARY” (J.D. Crichton, Christian Celebration: The Sacraments, p. 65).

    THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REDEFINES GRACE

    This confuses many people. When a Roman Catholic priest speaks of salvation through the grace of Jesus Christ, he does not mean the unmerited, free grace of Christ whereby a man is eternally and completely and once-for-all saved from sin when he puts his faith in Christ. By “grace,” the RCC means divine help to live a righteous life.

    Consider the following quote from Vatican II:

    “All children of the Church should nevertheless remember that their exalted condition results, not from their own merits, but from the grace of Christ. If they fail to respond in thought, word and deed to that grace, not only shall they not be saved, but they shall be the more severely judged” (Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 2, 14, p. 337).

    This is a strange kind of grace. It is a grace that does not provide eternal certainty, but only the POSSIBILITY of living up to God’s requirements. It is a subtle and unscriptural MIXTURE OF GRACE PLUS WORKS that is severely condemned in Galatians 1:6-8.

    THE BIBLE’S ANSWER TO ROME’S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION

    1. Sacramental salvation is contrary to the examples of salvation in the book of Acts (Acts 10:43: 11:16-18; 14:27; 15:9-11; 16:30-31). The souls that were saved in the early churches were saved once and for all by putting their faith in Jesus Christ. Their salvation was not a process of sacramentalism.

    2. Sacramental salvation is contrary to the teaching of the book of Romans. This book is written expressly to reveal the way of salvation (Romans 1:15-17).

    Consider Romans 3:21-24; 4:4-6; 11:6. Notice in the last reference that God says it is impossible to mix grace and works for salvation. We are saved by grace or we are saved by works; it cannot be a mixture of the two as the Catholic Church teaches!

    3. Sacramental salvation is also contrary to the Gospel of John, which was written expressly to lead men to eternal life in Christ (John 20:31).

    The first twelve chapters of John describe Jesus’ ministry to the world of lost men. In these chapters, we are shown by unmistakable emphasis that eternal life and salvation are received by faith in Jesus Christ and faith in Christ alone. “Believe” is the key word in these chapters. See John 1:12; 3:16-18, 36; 5:24; 6:28-29; 7:38-39; 8:24; 9:35-38; 11:25-26; 12:36-37. Notice that in all of these verses we are told that salvation is obtained through faith in Christ and there is no hint of sacramentalism.

    4. Sacramental salvation is contrary to the summary of the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Here Paul summarizes the gospel that he preached, and it is faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Period. There is no sacramentalism whatsoever. No priests; no church; no works; no sacraments.

    5. Sacramental salvation is contrary to the summary of the gospel in Ephesians 2:8-10. This passage teaches that salvation is a free gift of God’s grace and that works follow as the evidence. This puts everything into proper order and perspective. It is God’s will that men live holy lives, but holy living is the product of salvation and not the way of salvation.

    6. Sacramental salvation is contrary to the summary of the gospel in Titus 3:4-8. This passage also teaches that salvation is a free gift of God’s grace and that works follow as the evidence and product.

    This is true Bible salvation. Eternal life, forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and the Holy Spirit are received when an individual acknowledges his sinfulness, repents of his sin and trusts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It is only after this that a person can do any work to please God. Works and ceremonies, such as baptism and the Lord’s Supper, in themselves have nothing to do with forgiveness of sin, eternal life, the new birth, or becoming a child of God. Rather, obedience to God follows salvation as naturally as living follows ones natural birth. First we must receive new life through personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Then, having life, the regenerated believer serves his Master.

    QUESTIONS TO ASK A PERSON WHO CLAIMS TO BE A SAVED ROMAN CATHOLIC
    By Alex O. Dunlap

    Occasionally, some well-meaning Christian thinks he knows a “saved Roman Catholic.” We invite such a person to introduce us to his friend so that we may, in his presence, ask the Roman Catholic these questions. His answers will easily determine that he is not saved in the true, biblical sense. The new “accommodation” approach of the Roman Church in these ecumenical days of apostasy is to use the same expressions as Fundamental Christians. Christian love is not shown by permitting these people to believe they are saved, when they are not. Christian love is shown by making the true Gospel plain and clear so that the “religious but lost” person will realize his unsaved condition and his need of a Saviour. He must receive the true Christ of the Bible, not a counterfeit, as in the Roman, Greek and many other churches. The Apostle Paul said that he was free from the blood of all men because he did not withhold from them all truth. May the same be true of every genuine witness for Jesus Christ! Here are the questions:

    1. When were you converted?
    2. How were you converted?
    3. To what, or to whom, were you converted?
    4. What do you believe now that you did not believe before your conversion?
    5. What does it mean to be saved?
    6. On what scriptural promises do you base your salvation?
    7. What does it mean to be born again?
    8. Are you sure today that if you die tomorrow, or at any time in the future, you will be in heaven immediately after death?
    9. What do you believe about Purgatory?
    10. What do you believe about the Mass?
    11. Do you still participate in the Mass?
    12. Do you believe that any sinner can be saved who dies without trusting in Jesus Christ alone for the salvation of his soul and forgiveness of his sins?
    13. Do you believe that Mary and Roman Catholic saints can answer your prayers or help you get to heaven?
    14. How do you believe that the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ is applied to your soul?
    15. Have you told your priest you have been saved?
    16. Do you believe you will still go to heaven if you leave the Roman Catholic Church, receive believer’s baptism and join a fundamentalist Bible believing, non-Catholic church?
    17. When and where do you plan to do this?

    As questions such as these are discussed in detail, it will become evident that the person is trusting in his works, merits, baptism, confirmation, sacraments, or something BESIDES OR PLUS, Jesus Christ, and not in Christ and Christ ALONE. He can then be shown the difference between his unbiblical form of salvation and the saving faith of the Bible.

19. #1826 – First of all what’s a fuss about celebrating the birth of our Savior?

    There’s no fuss whatsoever. the only gripe is … that the real message of Christmas is lost amidst the revelry of the season. As long as men entertain only vague ideas of the reason for Christ’s advent they will miss the real spiritual, lasting joy which the gospel (the good news) was intended to bring.

20. Hello Sam #1827-1830,

    I have checked all your array of quotations came from the Catechism of the Catholic Church it is quite impressive that you painstakingly arranged what you think was a false doctrine of the church. You have enumerated a long list of issues / topics (“As questions such as these are discussed in detail, it will become evident that the person is trusting in his works, merits, baptism, confirmation, sacraments, or something BESIDES OR PLUS,”) that to my mind was designed to confuse your audiences and readers and that may result other readers getting bored following your arguments. All the arguments you presented was almost answered in this forum long before you enter. I suggest you read all the postings here and you will find out that your gospel you believe is true was long been refuted by other contributors on this site.

    I have only few things to say; Catholics know that faith and good works are both necessary for our salvation plus the grace of God (Eph. 2-8). However, one has to remember that it is not enough to simply say “I believe”, and then do nothing. Scripture says, (Matthew 7:21); “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but rather he who does the will of my Father.” Therefore, it must be assumed that works are indeed a necessary component of one’s faith. Too many people think that faith means giving God lip service only, Mathew explained this in chapter 15:18; “This generation honors me with their lips, while their heart is far from me”, rather than actually doing good works for others. James said, “that your faith must be justified by works” (James 2:24); which is much different from what Paul says in Galatians 2:16; about “We may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, the former, James refers to faith being justified by works; In the latter, Paul said that we are justified by faith. In other words once you have the faith and are justified by it, then your faith must in turn be justified by works.

    One very important passage in the scripture that specifically informed us the necessity of good deeds as a result of the grace is in Matthew 25:31-46:
    The Final Judgment
    31 i“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, jthen he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before himkwill be gathered lall the nations, and mhe will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates nthe sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then othe King will say to pthose on his right, ‘Come, you qwho are blessed by my Father, rinherit sthe kingdomtprepared for you ufrom the foundation of the world. 35 For vI was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you wgave me drink, xI was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 vI was naked and you clothed me, yI was sick and you zvisited me, aI was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And bthe King will answer them, c‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these dmy brothers,6 you did it to me.’
    41 “Then he will say to those on his left, e‘Depart from me, youfcursed, into gthe eternal fire prepared for hthe devil and his angels. 42 For iI was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, jyou did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away kinto eternal punishment, but the righteous kinto leternal life.”

    Ephesians 2:10; Paul said, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.” Always keep in mind the two definitions of the word “work” as used in the scripture — One meaning refers to a work of the Jewish law (does one no good), and the other definition refers to a good deed (beneficial) which make your faith flourish and lively in the eyes of God.

    Interestingly Peter has a good word for people who upset other people’s faith (2Peter 3:14-17 NLT); “14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to live a pure and blameless life. And be at peace with God. 15 And remember, the Lord is waiting so that people have time to be saved. This is just as our beloved brother Paul wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him — 16 speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters around to mean something quite different from what he meant, just as they do the other parts of Scripture — and the result is disaster for them. 17 I am warning you ahead of time, dear friends, so that you can watch out and not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people. I don’t want you to lose your own secure footing.”

    Jesus King of Mercy I trust in you!

    Ave Maria!

21. Roman Church teaching is 100% false Gospel. Thank God I am no more with that false system. Praise to Jesus

22. Virgin Mary: The day I brought the world a Saviour, it changed the destiny of humanity.
    On December 24, 2012 @ 6:00 pm
    
    My child, the day I brought the world a Saviour, it changed the destiny of humanity.

    This little child I loved with a passion like any other mother. But there was an extra grace given to me by My Father. That was the grace of protection. I protected my Son, from the start, in a way which was different. I knew that He was the promised Messiah and, therefore, I had been given a very special responsibility, although I had no idea of the magnitude which this responsibility would entail.

    I was not given to understand, early on, that my Son, the Saviour, sent by God to save the human race from the fires of Hell, would be killed. This part of my mission came as a terrible shock and my pain cannot be described, so intense was it.

    I suffered through my Son, in Him and with Him. Even today, I feel His pain and sorrow at the disbelief of my Son’s Existence in the world today. As the Mother of Salvation, my responsibility is to assist my Son in His plan to salvage souls.

    This is the time of the deluge; this time for swift and sudden change. As wars will break out, and a great war emerges from the ashes, God’s Plan will increase in its pace to awaken His Presence amongst all nations and all races.

    My child, I plead with you to pray the most Holy Rosary as I weep today. My tears, which you have just witnessed are for those souls who will not acknowledge my Son. It is those Christians who say that they accept Jesus Christ, as Saviour, and who insult Him, by not praying to Him, who sadden Him the most.

    The spread of atheism is like a dreadful epidemic sweeping the earth. God has not been forgotten, instead, His Existence is being deliberately ignored. His laws banned from your countries. His Churches not honoured. His sacred servants too timid and not courageous enough to proclaim His Holy Word.

    The earth will now change both physically and in spirit. The cleansing has begun. The battle will be waged between those who follow the evil one and God’s Remnant Church.

    Those loyal to my Son must always call on me, your beloved Mother of Salvation, so that I can consecrate you to my beloved Son, in order to grant you much needed graces. You must be prepared as a soldier of Jesus Christ. Your armour must be made stronger, because your role is as a crusader and you will have to march against great cruelty and injustice.

    Go in peace children and keep in daily prayer as the changes commence, so that the salvation of humanity can be achieved.

    All will be done according to the Holy Will of my Father, through His only Son, Jesus Christ. You, my children, who ask for my help, will be granted great protection for your nations.
    
    Your beloved Mother

    Mother of Salvation

    .

23. There will be a great deluge. You will also witness smaller floods across other countries
    On December 25, 2012 @ 7:20 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, My Plan of Salvation for the world, began in My Time, on the 22 December 2012.

    This time in the world is Mine as I gather all God’s children together, as one, as the great battle begins.

    This period of great tribulation will last some time. The wars will escalate until the big war is declared and the world will change.

    All nations will witness the changes. You must be prepared for this and be accepting, for all these things must happen before My Second Coming.

    There will be a great deluge. You will also witness smaller floods across other countries.

    The climates will all begin to change and your weather will be different, in a way, which may seem strange to you.

    This is a time for all those who have opened their eyes to the Truth, to plan the path for me so that I can welcome all in My Sacred Arms.

    Have no fear for My Love will dilute much and your prayers can, and will, mitigate many of these things as well as the atrocities planned by the beast.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

24. Hello Sam #1827-1830,

    I have checked all your array of quotations came from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and it is quite impressive that you painstakingly arranged what you think was a false doctrine of the church. You have enumerated a long list of issues / topics (#1829,“As questions such as these are discussed in detail, it will become evident that the person is trusting in his works, merits, baptism, confirmation, sacraments, or something BESIDES OR PLUS,”) that to my mind was designed to confuse your audiences and readers that may result other readers getting bored following your arguments. All the arguments you presented was already answered in this forum long before you enter. I suggest you read all the postings here and you will find out that the gospel you believe is true was long been refuted by other contributors on this site.

    I have only few things to say; Catholics know that faith and good works are both necessary for our salvation plus the grace of God (Eph. 2-8). However, one has to remember that it is not enough to simply say “I believe”, and then do nothing. Scripture says, (Matthew 7:21); “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but rather he who does the will of my Father.” Therefore, it must be assumed that works are indeed a necessary component of one’s faith. Too many people think that faith means giving God lip service only, Mathew explained this in chapter 15:18; “This generation honors me with their lips, while their heart is far from me”, rather than actually doing good works for others. James said, “that your faith must be justified by works” (James 2:24); which is much different from what Paul says in Galatians 2:16; about “We may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, the former, James refers to faith being justified by works; In the latter, Paul said that we are justified by faith. In other words once you have the faith and are justified by it, then your faith must in turn be justified by works.

    One very important passage in the scripture that specifically informed us the necessity of good deeds as a result of the grace is in Matthew 25:31-46:
    The Final Judgment
    31 i“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, c‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,6 you did it to me.’
    41 “Then he will say to those on his left, e‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For i was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

    Ephesians 2:10; Paul said, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.” Always keep in mind the two definitions of the word “work” as used in the scripture — One meaning refers to a work of the Jewish law (does one no good), and the other definition refers to a good deed (beneficial) which make your faith flourish and lively in the eyes of God.

    Interestingly Peter has a good word for people who upset other people’s faith (2 Peter 3:14-17 NLT); “14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to live a pure and blameless life. And be at peace with God. 15 And remember, the Lord is waiting so that people have time to be saved. This is just as our beloved brother Paul wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him — 16 speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters around to mean something quite different from what he meant, just as they do the other parts of Scripture — and the result is disaster for them. 17 I am warning you ahead of time, dear friends, so that you can watch out and not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people. I don’t want you to lose your own secure footing.”

    Jesus King of Mercy I trust in you!

    Ave Maria!

25. God the Father: Soon, a new Light, a new sun, will be seen
    On December 27, 2012 @ 6:20 pm
    
    My dearest daughter, this is a Message of great hope for all My children.

    The time for the changes, as foretold, when the earth will turn; the planets will change and the climates will no longer be predictable, is upon you.

    My Great Power is now being manifested in Heaven, as it is on earth, as I lead the battle against My enemies. Satan and his demons are being defeated, but they put up a terrible defence. With them, they suck My poor children, whose hearts are filled with political and worldly ambitions, into playing a role, as they try to crucify My children.

    Man is weak. Man is easily seduced. Because of his blindness to the Truth, laid down by Me, from the beginning of Creation, man believes in lies. He believes the lies, spewed out by the evil one, because he is attracted by the promises of power and pleasure.

    My children must acknowledge the glorious and splendid Light of My Kingdom. You, My daughter, have seen this Light and you know how Powerful it is. You know the Power of God, and how it envelops you. Can you imagine what this will be like when My New Paradise is revealed? You, My daughter, have glimpsed but just a small portion of this glorious and gleaming Light.

    It is important to welcome the Light of My Son into your hearts. When you invite Him to salvage you, and take you into His Sacred Heart, you will feel this Light.

    The Light of the New Dawn – the New Era – will slowly, but surely, illuminate the world. Soon, a new Light, a new sun, will be seen. It will be larger and will be the cause of much wonder.

    This is a Sign of My Power and My Majesty. It will be a miracle and will prove that man does not fully understand the secret of creation.

    Only I, God the Creator of the Universe, command all that is. All that will be. All that can be. No man, no scientist, can solve these most sacred secrets, as it is not for man to understand at this time.

    The wonders of My Creation, and the force of My Power, will be shown to the world. Let no man make the error of believing that Satan, and his wicked followers, haVE any power to bring you the wonders which I have Created for every single creature. I have promised to reveal the Truth so that you, My children, can wipe away the cobwebs which cover your eyes.

    When the Day comes for the Truth to be finally accepted by you, I will grant you the most splendid riches, graces and a life you could never envisage, for it is beyond your imagination.

    I am happy to impart this message of hope today. I hope it brings you much happiness and peace.

    My Promise, to bring you to your final inheritance, is to become a reality, soon.
    
    Your Loving Father
    God the Most High

    .

26. I have given you My sacrament of Penance, and I wait for all sinners to repent of their sins.
    Monday, December 10, 2012:

    Jesus said:
    “My people, every time you commit your sins, I am still suffering on My cross for how you are offending Me. I have given you My sacrament of Penance, and I wait for all sinners to repent of their sins. For those, who are Catholic, you can come to Me in the priest of Confession where you will be absolved of your sins. I am a merciful God, and just as the father of the Prodigal Son welcomed his son back, so I welcome all sinners back so their sins will be cleansed, and I will restore sanctifying grace upon their souls. I love all of My people so much, and I want to see you with pure souls by frequent Confession. Your Advent Season is a time of prayer and preparation for My feast of Christmas. I ask My people to seek to be perfect as My heavenly Father is perfect. Pray and evangelize souls so more souls can be saved from hell. I bring My Word of My Gospel of love to everyone as I desire true peace on earth for all of mankind. The mission of My faithful is to convert as many souls to faith in Me as you can. Rejoice and receive My Good News.”

    Jesus said:
    My people, your President keeps repeating how his election gave him a mandate to continue his previous policies. Even though there are many evidences of fraud in the voting, he will begin to lead your country on the road to socialism with more government control over your people. You will see him use more Executive Orders to get his way, even when his opposition is trying to block him. His abuse of power will become more obvious with each action that will defy your Constitutional rules. I have warned your people that if there is no conformance to your Constitution, then you will eventually lose all of your rights. He is leading your country into the North American Union as power will soon be given over to the Antichrist. When you see this dictatorial rule manifest itself, I will be warning My faithful to be prepared to leave for the protection of My refuges. Martial law or mandatory chips in the body will soon threaten the lives of all Christians and patriots. Do not take up weapons to fight this evil, but let My angels protect you so you do not have to kill anyone. Trust in My warning you when it is time to leave for My refuges. The elite and the Antichrist will have a short reign before I will come in victory over all the evil ones. My faithful will then see their reward in My Era of Peace and later in heaven.”

    .

27. Listen to St. John the Baptist when he says to repent in order to prepare the way for My coming
    Sunday, December 9, 2012: (Second Sunday of Advent)

    Jesus said:
    
    “My people, today you are witnessing the words of St. John the Baptist as he proclaimed: ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord.’ St. John was a voice in the desert who called the people to repent of their sins, and he baptized them with water by immersion in the Jordan River.

    Even in your Advent Season, all of My people are called to prayer, fasting, and repentance of your sins as well. You can cleanse your sins in Confession and you will have pure souls to present to Me at My crib. Many of you can remember your sins enough to confess them to the priest.

    Now is the time for salvation, and now is the time for My faithful to come and confess your sins. Do not put off Confession out of pride or making excuses. You are all sinners, and you are all in need of repentance.

    Cling to Me in receiving Holy Communion, but you need to be worthy in your souls and free of mortal sin to receive Me.

    Listen to St. John the Baptist when he says to repent in order to prepare the way for My coming.”
    
    .

28. I need my prayer warriors to give good example to their families and friends in how to pray and give honor and worship to my Son, especially in Adoration of His Most Blessed Sacrament.
    Saturday, December 8, 2012: (Immaculate Conception of Mary)

    The Blessed Mother said:

    “My dear children, you are celebrating my Immaculate Conception that was expressed by Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in a heavenly revelation. I am showing you my holy rosary which is your daily prayer in all fifteen decades. In the vision you see a heart shaped rosary which honors my Immaculate Heart and my Son’s Sacred Heart. Our two hearts of love represent my living in the Divine Will of following my Son in all of His requests.

    I am showing you how to pray your rosary slowly and humbly for my prayer intentions. Pray for all sinners, for the souls in purgatory, for peace in the world, and for the stoppage of abortion in the world. My children are weak in their spiritual lives, and I need my prayer warriors to give good example to their families and friends in how to pray and give honor and worship to my Son, especially in Adoration of His Most Blessed Sacrament.

    I bring you to my Son always, and I thank all of my children for your prayers and coming together at your prayer meetings as at the Gospa Prayer House. The faithful souls are a beacon of light to help spread my Son’s message of love to all the world. In this Advent Season I want you to stay close to us in your prayers, Masses, and devotions to the saints.”

    .

29. #1835

    I have only few things to say; Catholics know that faith and good works are both necessary for our salvation plus the grace of God (Eph. 2-8).

    Faith in what? Faith in whom? Good works to obtain faith or good works that is the result or product of faith? When the bible talks about “believe”, what does it actually mean?

30. #1835

    It would nice of you if you can provide the Roman catholic interpretation to the terms JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, GLORIFICATION.

31. Knowledge can very often blind you to the Truth
    On December 28, 2012 @ 6:05 am
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, it is only when your heart is truly open to Me that you can experience My Light and acknowledge the Truth.

    Many say that they have asked for the Gift of discernment and that they prayed to the Holy Spirit in order to receive it. Not all who ask, are given the insight they need, however, to receive this precious Gift. Yet, they will say that they have. Then they insult Me by claiming that My Holy Word makes them uncomfortable. They claim that their concerns must mean that My Holy Messages are coming from the spirit of evil.

    To those of you who proudly proclaim your twisted interpretation of My Holy Word to be false, given to you through these Messages, I have this to say.

    When did you last come before Me naked? Without the screen of pride shielding you? When did you come before Me, on your knees, calling Me to truly guide you, without you first putting your hands over your ears by refusing to listen? Don’t you know that I will only enlighten you with the Gift of discernment when you come before Me without any pre-conceived views of your own? You cannot be freed from the chains of intellectual pride, which blinds you to the truth of spiritual knowledge, until you are stripped of all human pride.

    To those amongst you who spend years studying Holy Scripture, and who consider yourselves to be well versed – and therefore more worthy to define My word – you must think again.

    Knowledge of My Father’s Book does not qualify you any more than the beggar in the street, with no education of spiritual matters. Knowledge can very often blind you to the Truth. Knowledge based on your own human interpretation of My Father’s Book means nothing when it comes to understanding the Word of God.

    Those of you who boast of your learned ways by following the Holy Scriptures of God, and then use this to deny My Word given to the world today, are guilty of sin. Your sin is the sin of pride. You offend Me because your pride is worth more to you than love for Me, in its most simple form.

    Love for Me, your Jesus, comes from the heart. Souls worthy of My Kingdom recognise My Voice quickly. Souls who defy My Word and encourage others to outwardly reject Me are influenced by the spirit of evil. You disgust Me. Your vile voices, where you shout out and proudly declare your worthiness, based on your knowledge of Holy Scripture, will be silenced.

    My patience is never ending, but for those of you who stand before Me and damage My Plan of Salvation, with deliberate intent, you will be cast into the wilderness in the blink of an eye.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

32. Sam #1840-1841,

    Oh My Gosh, you really do not understand the message indicated in #1835 do you?

    I am ready to answer your simple questions but before I do (‘Faith in what? Faith in whom? Good works to obtain faith or good works that is the result or product of faith? When the bible talks about “believe”, what does it actually mean?”) you must first lay down to me clearly what really is your argument about “faith and good works”. Should they be separated to obtain salvation or not? You are creating an argument without a proof text that makes your point solid and dependable.

    You see a text without a context is a pretext.

    Jesus King of Mercy I trust in you!

    Ave Maria!

33. Never fear Me for I come in peace
    On December 29, 2012 @ 7:36 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, again, I say to all of you, dear disciples of Mine, not to be fearful. While events to come may be distressing for you to witness, remember these, My Holy Words, given to you now.

    My Love for humanity is so great that I forgive easily, any sin, no matter how offensive, once true remorse is shown by the sinner. Never fear Me if you truly love Me because I protect you at all times. Yes, you will suffer in My Name, when you walk behind Me. But this is something, which you must accept. It is such a small price to pay for the Glory, which lies ahead of you.

    Those who, however, walk in front of Me in the mistaken belief that they do not need the Presence of God in their lives need to be fearful. These sinners, who will never show remorse, for they believe that they are in control of their own destiny, will fall into the abyss. This, the trap laid down for them by the evil one, can be likened to a ticking clock. For every minute they continue to forsake Me, their time is shortened. Their time to redeem themselves in My Eyes is short.

    Know that the two armies for the battle of souls have now lined up in order to prepare for the war. Time is moving on so please be prepared at all times.

    Never fear Me, for I come in peace. Be fearful, however, of the beast who will be seen to come in peace, but who comes to destroy you. He, the evil one, and his followers on earth are those you should be fearful of. Not Me.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

34. Wednesday, December 5, 2012:

    Jesus said:
    “My people, in the vision I am showing you another large earthquake that will occur most likely along your Western coast. Your most recent earthquakes in this area have been under the ocean floor.”

    “These are the kinds of earthquakes that can cause tsunamis if they are large enough. These severe earthquakes can also trigger the major faults on the land as well.”

    “Some of your major quakes have been caused by the HAARP machine with microwaves. If the one world people want to create a major disaster, they could do so with a major quake on the Pacific coastline. You have already seen a few disasters coming into the Northeast with Hurricane Sandy and a snow storm. If the one world people could cause these disasters, they certainly could cause major earthquakes as well.”

    “Be prepared for more disasters, as they are looking for excuses to cause a martial law takeover. If such a martial law results, then My faithful will need to come to the protection of My refuges.”

    Jesus said:
    “My people, this is your first week of Advent, and you should be focused on preparing your soul for My feast day on Christmas. This is a time for prayer, fasting, and attending Mass and Communion. For sinners it is also a time to confess your sins to the priest in the confessional of the vision.”

    “Non-Catholics can pray to Me as repentant sinners. I am always ready to forgive your sins and welcome you back into My good graces. You need to take the forward step to come to Me as a humble sinner, and ask for My mercy.”

    “Do not put off Confession or repenting, but make a point to reconcile your sins with Me, and plan to visit Me in the sacrament of Penance. Those, who repent, will be rewarded with pure souls who are worthy of coming before Me at My crib.”

    “Pray for your soul and the souls of your family. Pray also for all poor sinners, and the souls in purgatory.”

35. He will, by the power of the occult, perform what will be seen to be cures for people who are terminally ill
    On December 30, 2012 @ 5:50 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, I wish to tell you that the changes, which will prepare the world for My Second Coming, are about to be seen by the whole world.

    The wars in the Middle East will accelerate and be widespread. They will involve the West as well as the East. The turmoil will be halted by the man of peace, the beast, the antichrist. Many will, in time, believe that he is God, the Messiah; so much power will he seem to possess. His powers have been accorded to him by the father of evil, Satan.

    He will, by the power of the occult, perform what will be seen to be cures for people who are terminally ill. They will be cured of their illnesses temporarily and people will believe that his powers will have come from Heaven. That he is I, Jesus Christ. They will believe that he comes to prepare the world for the New Era and that the Second Coming is taking place before them.

    He will perform other miracles, but they will simply be an illusion. Some sacred servants of Mine will drop before him and adore him. Political leaders will publicly applaud him. He will be seen as the good and humble messiah and he will emulate all My traits. Sadly he will deceive many.

    I beg you, My disciples, to warn people that I, Jesus Christ, will not come in the flesh. This cannot be. I have already come to earth in the flesh and this cannot happen a second time. When I come again it will be through the way in which I left and then the wicked will be banished and My New Paradise will replace the earth.

    Do not be deceived. Be alert. I will continue to warn you about the antichrist and the lies he will present to the world. In this way, you can help Me save those poor souls who will follow him slavishly into the pits of hell.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

36. Tuesday, December 4, 2012: (St. John Damascene)

    Jesus said:
    “My people, you were given the word to watch for My coming as you started this Advent Season. Now in the vision you are being given another word of ‘Light’ so you are ready for My Light to remove the darkness of sin. Wherever you have My Presence, I am the Light of the world to show you the way to heaven. When you have power outages, you are faced with a need for light in the darkness of night. ”

    “It is My coming to earth that will bring My salvation for all souls who accept Me. Even in the description of Isaiah and in Revelation you are seeing a Light that will not cease in My coming Era of Peace. So rejoice as you see the Light of My Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to find Me in My crib.”

    “I give each soul a spiritual light to follow Me in My sacraments. Even in Baptism, you are given a lighted candle from the Easter Candle. Go in My Light and you will find your reward in heaven.”

    Jesus said:
    “My people, the one world people are about to crash the world currencies and establish their new currency, backed by gold and silver, called SDRs or Strategic Drawing Rights.”

    “This means that most dollar denominated instruments will have little or no value. Gold, silver, and real estate will have value, but things written on paper will diminish to nothing.”

    “The one world people have very little wealth in paper because their currency is gold and silver. Two other commodities will have value, and that is food and energy products.”

    “Such a crash of these currencies could cause a world depression before a new money system could be established. People could lose their IRA and 401K funds. Welfare and Social Security checks could stop. Those, who have gold, silver, and food will survive.”

    “This crash will cause chaos and a possible revolution which will cause My faithful to come to My refuges of protection. Such a financial disruption will enable the one world people and the Antichrist to take over all of the coming continental unions.”

    “This is why it is important for My refuge leaders to set up bedding, and store food, water, and fuel for heat. My angels will protect you, and I will multiply your food and fuel.”
    .

37. You will be the focus of much hatred
    On December 31, 2012 @ 7:25 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter the burden upon you, the messenger, sent to prepare the way for My Second Coming, is to become heavier.

    You will be the focus of much hatred and many, including priests from within My Church, will try to destroy you.

    The same will be true of those who spread My Messages. As the carriers of the Truth, they too, will be verbally attacked.

    This is the time when you must keep to yourself and simply continue to do what is needed to ensure that as many as possible are given access to these messages.

    As My Holy Word begins to reach many corners, the anger against them will deepen. When the Messages are pulled apart and, in some cases, declared heresy, you must keep moving. Remain together and do not listen to the poisonous rants which will be hurled at you.

    Remain strong and courageous. Keep by My side as we walk this path to Calvary. For make no mistake this difficult mission has been foretold and it will be very difficult for many of you.

    I bless you all as I warn you that you must not fret when the attacks become fiercer. It is because this is My Holy Word that much hatred will be shown. This is the price to be paid for the salvation of souls, including those who torment you the most.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

38. Perfection as Application of the Gospel
    March 28, 1944

    Jesus says:
    “On reading the Gospel in a distracted way, as you do, too many truths escape you. You take in the major teachings – even these, poorly, and adapting them to your present way of seeing.”

    “Anyway, know that it is not the Gospel that must adapt to you, but you to the Gospel. It is the way it is. Its teaching was that way in its first century of existence, and it will be that way in the last one, even if the last century were to come in billions of years. You will no longer be able to live according to the Gospel–you are able to do so very little already—but not for this reason will the Gospel become different. It will always say the same vital truths to you.”

    “Your wanting to adapt the Gospel to your way of living is a confession of your spiritual wretchedness. If you had faith in the eternal truths and in Me, who have proclaimed them, you would strive to live out the Gospel integrally, just as the early Christians did. And don’t say, ‘But life now is such that we cannot follow these teachings to perfection. We admire them, but we are too different from them to follow them.”

    “The pagans of the first centuries were also very — excessively — different from the Gospel, and yet they were able to follow it. Lustful, greedy, cruel, skeptical, and dissolute, they managed to tear all these octopuses away from themselves, lay bare their souls, make them bleed to wrench them away from the tentacles of pagan life, and come to Me, so wounded in thought, affections, and habits, saying to Me, ‘Lord, if You want to, you can heal me. And I healed them. I closed their heroic wounds.”

    “For it is heroism to be able to wrench from oneself that which is an evil out of love for a law that is totally accepted. It is heroism to slash from oneself all that is an impediment to following Me. It is the heroism which I have indicated: ‘In truth I say that to follow Me it is necessary to leave home, fields, wealth, and affections. But whoever is able to leave all to come to Me, out of love for my Name, will be given a hundredfold in the other life. In truth I say that whoever has been regenerated in following Me will possess the Kingdom and will come with Me to judge men on the last day.”

    “Oh, my true faithful ones! With Me, with Me you shall be a jubilant, radiant multitude in the hour of my triumph, of your triumph, for all that is mine is yours; it belongs to my children, to my beloved lovers, my blessed ones, my joy.”

    “But it is necessary to be ‘regenerated,’ O men, to be mine. To be regenerated. John, too, says so, just as Matthew does, quoting my words—the latter, when speaking of the rich young man, and my beloved disciple, when speaking of Nicodemus?!“ It is necessary to be reborn. It is necessary to be regenerated. To make oneself a new soul, O new gentiles of the twentieth century. To remake it by stripping oneself of the world’s compromises and ideas, to embrace my Idea and live it out. To live it out truly. Integrally.”

    “That is what the gentiles of the first centuries did, and they became the glorious saints of Heaven. And they brought civilization to the Earth. This is what you must do, if you really love Me, if you really care for the other Life, if you really work for civilization on Earth. The Earth now! More uncivilized than a tribe buried in the virgin forests! And why? Because it has rejected Me. Calling oneself a Christian does not mean that one is. It is not having received Baptism for the sake of form that constitutes one as such. ‘Christian’ means to be as Christ said one should be. As the Gospel repeats to you.”

    “But you read the Gospel very little. You read it poorly. You trim it of what bores you in the major teachings. And, what is more, you don’t even notice the more delicate ones.”

    “But tell me something. When an artist is preparing to carry out a work, does he limit himself to creating a rough design, if he is a sculptor, to doing a sketch, if a painter, or to raising walls, if he is an architect? No. After the work of approximation, he gets down to the details. These take much longer to finish than the preparatory work. But it “is these that create a masterpiece.”

    “To perfect that creation how lovingly the sculptor works with chisel and hammer on the marble, which already seems to be alive to those who are not expert! He is so precise and intent in his work that he resembles a goldsmith. But see how that face of stone takes on life under the caress—it is so attentive and light that it is now a caress—of the tool. The eyes seem to be adorned with a glance; the nostrils seem to swell with respiration; the mouth becomes as soft as the curving of slightly warm lips; and the hair, ah, is no longer hard in the stone, but airy and pliant, as if the wind were flowing through it or a loving hand were tousling it.”

    “Observe that painter. The cloth is already finished. It is beautiful-—it looks lovely, perfect. But he does not rest. Look, here a blue-black shadow is needed, and there, a touch of carmine. On this flower shining in the hand of this virgin a spark of sunlight is needed to make it stand out in its pearly whiteness. On this cheek a teardrop is needed to bring life to the ecstatic joy arising suddenly in the midst of torments. This flowering field, where these flocks pass by and graze, should be sprinkled with dew to bring out the flowers’ silkiness. The painter does not rest until the work is so perfect as to prompt the exclamation, ‘It’s real!’ Nor does the architect or the musician or all the other true artists who want to give the world masterpieces.”

    “And this is what you must do with the masterwork of your spiritual life.”

    “But what do you think? That I, who was so foreign to discourses, added words for the pleasure of saying them? No. I said what was strictly necessary to bring you to perfection. And if in the great teaching of the Gospel there are the resources to give salvation to your souls, in the most minute touches there are the resources to give you perfection.”

    “The former are commands. To disobey them means to die to Life. The latter are counsels. To obey these means to have a more and more ardent sanctity and to approach the Father’s Perfection increasingly.”

    “Now, Matthew’s Gospel states, ‘Because of the multiplication of iniquity charity will grow cold in many. O children, this is a great truth which is meditated on very little.”

    “What are you suffering from now? From a lack of love. At root, what are wars? Hatred. What is hatred? The antithesis of love. Political reasons? Living room? An unjust border? A political offense? Excuses, excuses.”

    “You don’t love one another. You don’t feel yourselves to be brothers and sisters. You don’t remember that you have all come from one blood, that you are all born in the same way, that you all die in the same way, that you are all hungry, thirsty, cold, and sleepy in the same way and need bread, clothing, housing, and heat in the same way. You don’t remember that I said, ‘Love one another. From the way you love one another people will understand that you are my disciples. Love your neighbor as yourselves’.”

    “You think these truths are the words of a fairy tale. You think this doctrine of mine is the doctrine of a madman. You replace them with many poor human doctrines-poor or wicked, according to their creators. But even the most perfect ones among them, if they differ from mine, are imperfect. Like the mythical statue, a great many of them will contain precious metal. But the base will be made of slime and in the end will bring about the collapse of the whole doctrine. And in the collapse, the ruin of those who have relied on it. Mine does not collapse. Whoever relies on it is not ruined, but rises to greater and greater security: he rises to Heaven, to the alliance with God on earth, to the possession of God beyond the earth.”

    “But charity cannot exist where iniquity resides. For charity is God, and God does not coexist with Evil. Whoever loves Evil thus hates God. In hating God he increases his iniquities and separates from God-Charity more and more. This is a circle that one does not come out of and that clasps you to torture you.”

    “Whether powerful or humble, you have increased your sins. Having neglected the Gospel, derided the Commandments, and forgotten God-for those living according to the flesh, those living according to mental pride, and those living according to the counsels of Satan cannot say they remember Him—you have trampled on the family, robbed, blasphemed, killed, borne false testimony, lied, fornicated, and rendered the illicit licit. Here robbing a job, a wife, or a patrimony; there, higher up, robbing power or national freedom, increasing your thievery with the sin of lying to justify to peoples your conduct, which sends them to their death. The poor peoples, that ask for nothing except to live in peace! And that you incite with poisonous lies, hurling them against each other to guarantee for yourselves a well-being which it is not licit for you to obtain at the price of blood, tears, and the sacrifice of whole nations.”

    “But individuals—how much they are to blame for the great sin of the great! It is the heap of little individual sins that creates the basis for Sin. If each lived in a holy way, without greed for flesh, money, and power, how could Sin be created? There would be still be evildoers. But they would be rendered harmless because no one would serve them. Like well-isolated madmen, they would go on raving over their obscene dreams of overbearance. But the dreams would never come true. Even if Satan helped them, his aid would be nullified by the opposing unity of all mankind, rendered holy by living according to God. And, in addition, mankind would have God with it A benign God towards his obedient, good sons and daughters. Charity, then, would be in hearts. Alive and sanctifying. And iniquity would fall.”

    “Do you see, O children, the need to love as not to be iniquitous and the need not to be iniquitous in order to possess love? Strive to love. If you loved…. Just a little! If you began to love. The beginning would suffice, and then everything would go forward by itself.”

    “The harvest cannot be gathered if the ear does not mature. The ear cannot mature if it is not formed. And it cannot be formed if the tuft has not formed. But if the farmer did not cast the little seed into the sod, could the green tuft supporting the glory of the ears like a living chalice emerge from the furrow? The seed is so small! And yet it breaks the glebe, penetrates the earth, sucks on it like an eager mouth, and then exposes to the sun its blessed pomp of future bread and with its color of hope or its gold rustling in the wind and shining in the sun sings the blessing to Him who gives the Bread and bread to man. If the seed no longer existed—so small that many of them are needed to fill the gullet of a sparrow — you would not even have the Host on the altar. You would die of physical hunger and spiritual starvation.”

    “Place a seed, a little seed of charity, in every heart. Let it penetrate there. Make it grow in you. Turn your naked greed into a fertile flowering of holy works all arising from charity. The earth, now tribulations and thorns in its entirety, would change its visage and its harshness, which torture you, into a placid, good dwelling, a foretaste of blessed Heaven. To love one another is to be in Heaven already. For Heaven is nothing but love.”

    “Read and read the Gospel, and read it even in its most minute sentences. Live it out in its shades of perfection. Begin with love. It seems to be the most difficult precept and counsel. But it is the key to everything. To all Good. To all Joy. To all Peace.”

39. The Temple of God will be desecrated beyond recognition
    On January 1, 2013 @ 7:20 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, the new dawn has arisen and the changes have commenced in preparation for My Second Coming.

    Wars in the Middle East will now escalate and many will die by the hands of the evil group. They, the evil group, are going to be stopped, however, by the Hand of My Father. Each one struck down, as they pose a greater danger to God’s children.

    My Plans are being manifested and those among you, chosen by Me to lead the remnant Church will swiftly build bases throughout the world. These places will be where you will go to honour Me, in peace, when your churches will not welcome you in the way it is meant to be.

    Your churches will become no more than places of entertainment where pagan rituals and music will be staged in elaborate ceremonies. Supposedly, these events will be to honour God. Instead, they will idolise sinful acts and they will declare them to be in accordance with My Teachings.

    Many will present themselves, soon, as the new servants of God. Many will never have been prepared in the Christian Church and, therefore, will not be fit to present the Holy Sacraments to God’s children. They will be imposters. They will dictate to all, the truth of what, they say, are the teachings of God in today’s world. Their lies will reach the ears of humanity all over the world.

    Many will be attracted to what they will perceive to be a fresh, new approach, to My Teachings and the Love of God. All will be a terrible lie. Many will be deceived into accepting the new One World Religion.

    As the false church grows and attracts many celebrities, the media and political leaders, My Remnant Church will grow. Many of My sacred servants will be disloyal to Me and join in the new One-World Religion where they will be welcomed with open arms.

    These imposters will cause terrible hardship for Christians everywhere, if they do not accept this new, politically endorsed cultural organisation, which will call itself a church of God.

    While Christians will be the main target of hatred, the House of Israel will also be sought out and the Jews will be made scapegoats in this war for souls.

    Nothing you see will appear to be different on the exterior in the early days. Soon, there will be seen, a rich and powerful building in Rome which will become a meeting place. All religions will be made welcome here until they are forced to swallow the lies presented to them by the New World Order.

    It will, in time, become unacceptable for certain Christian practices to be held in public.

    These will include the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion. They will be deemed to be unacceptable in a modern and secular world and you will find it impossible to receive them. The Sacrament of Marriage will be changed and marriage will be available in a different form. The only way to receive the True Sacraments at that stage will be through the Remnant Church.

    To My sacred servants who will suffer in My Name, as they will struggle to hold onto the Sacraments and the Holy Mass, know this. Your duty is to Me, through your Holy Vows, and you must never be tempted to deviate from the Truth. Pressure will be put on you to desert the ways of the Lord. Your voice will become just like a whisper as the enemy tries to drown out the True Word of God.

    Gather together. Unite. For very soon the Temple of God will be desecrated beyond recognition. All you need do is follow Me, listen to your heart and your conscience. Be ready at all times, for this difficult journey ahead. You will need all your courage, your strength and your perseverance.

    Know that, at the end of your journey, I will be waiting to sweep you into My Holy Arms and into the safe haven of My New Paradise.
    
    Your Jesus

    .

40. Can Man Support Himself On Nothing?
    August 19, 1996

    Saint Michael the Archangel says:
    
    child of the Father and of the Most High, spouse of the Spouse, garden of the Holy Spirit, fruit of the Most Holy Trinity, do you know what “fear of the Lord” means? it means hatred of all that is evil and opposite to God; God is good, meek, gentle, merciful, love and the Truth;

    let your soul then be fearing God and allow God to perfect you; the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom and Wisdom is given to mere children for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs; so unless you change your hearts and become free of malice you will never enter into God’s kingdom;

    ah …. have you not heard, how Our Creator, thrice Holy, triumphant over all, had wept with tears of joy while He was creating you? yes, it is this same God, who is the Most High, the great and living God, to whom you owe your life, who created you, that the world today has turned against Him;

    how can anyone believe that they will escape God’s Justice? all is for ever under the Eye of God, and what He sees as crimes and offences on His Holiness outweigh the sands of the seas …. for how long will He see His Image profaned? can man support himself on nothing, and for how long? refusing Faithful Love is to refuse Life; yet the God they have forgotten has never forgotten them;

    I can now plead for mercy for all of you, especially for those amongst you whose hearts are the hardest; the weak and the needy have to be rescued and saved from the clutches of the evil one, who plots the fall of God’s people; so come! revive your prayers to Me and I shall intercede; come! with a single mind to save God’s children, come and pray! while I am giving you this warning, there are those who would not listen; – ask for My intercession and I will protect you and defend you from evil and his dominion;

    – as heaven praises God’s wonders, praise, you too, the Most High, your Creator, without ceasing, for who in the skies can compare with the Almighty One? who among the sons of God can rival Him? His Throne like the sun before me cries out: “Justice!” once the Holy One has spoken, His Word will be accomplished, and Justice will be done by fire;

    but for those whose heart was pleasing to God who cried out to Him: “You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation!” so will they be made God’s first-born, and will not fear in the Day He will come by fire;

    soon, Yahweh means to pass through among you; let me hear your fervent prayers, then ask yourselves: “what will the Day of the Lord mean for me?” and anyone who conspires evil, will be working for his own ruin; this is why I tell you: come and sow seeds of peace and reconciliation, so that your fruit will be agreeable to the Almighty and heaven will be your compensation;
    
    Saint Michael, God’s Archangel

41. A Guardian Angel explains Gospel passages forming part of two Masses
    January 12, 1947

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    SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FAMILY AND
    SUNDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF THE EPIPHANY

    FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY
    Introit: Pr 23:24, 25; Ps 84(83):2-3
    Collect: Lord Jesus Christ, when You were subject to Mary and Joseph, You sanctified the life of the home with ineffable virtues; grant by their help that we may be taught by the example of Your Holy Family and become sharers in eternal happiness. You, who are God, living and reigning.
    Epistle: C1 3:12-17
    Gradual: Ps 27(26):4; 84(83):5
    Alleluia: Is 45:15
    Gospel: Lk 2:42-52
    Offertory: Lk 2:22
    Secret: We offer You, Lord, the sacrifice of propitiation, humbly begging You that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and blessed Joseph, You would firmly establish our families in Your peace and grace. Through the same our Lord.
    Communion: Lk 2:51
    Postcommunion: Lord Jesus, make us whom You refresh with Your heavenly sacraments follow continually the example of Your Holy Family; so that in the hour of our death Your glorious Virgin Mother and blessed Joseph may come to us and we may be found worthy to be received by You into Your eternal dwelling place. You who are God, living and reigning.

    FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
    Introit: Upon a high throne I saw a Man sitting, whom a multitude of Angels adore singing together: Behold Him the name of whose empire is for ever. – Ps 100(99):l
    Collect: Lord, we entreat You of Your heavenly goodness, hear the prayers of Your suppliant people; and grant that they may perceive what is their duty and may have the strength to carry it out. Through our Lord.
    Epistle: Rm 12:1-5
    Gradual: Ps 72(71):18, 3
    Alleluia: Ps 100(99):l
    Offertory: Ps 100(99):l, 2
    Secret: May the sacrifice which is offered to You, Lord, ever give us life and protect us. Through our Lord.
    Communion: Lk 2:48, 49
    Postcommunion: We humbly entreat You, almighty God, to grant to those whom You refresh with Your sacraments, that they may serve You worthily by a life well pleasing to You. Through our Lord.

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    January 12, 1947

    Angel Azariah says:
    
    “Today as well two Holy Masses have to be contemplated, and I shall do so with loving solicitude to leave you free to do what the Lord has told you.”

    “The introits of the two Masses sing the two natures of Jesus Most Holy. In that of the Mass of the Holy Family, the Savior’s Humanity appears to us from the words ‘Let the father of the just one exult happily…. May she who has given birth to you rejoice.’ If the Savior is ‘just,’ it is a sign that He is a man. For men, men alone, with their nature, in which the lower part is in opposition to the higher one, are in a position, by free will, to be or not to be, to become or not to become ‘just.'”

    “God, as Perfection, cannot be unjust. We angels do not have the weight of flesh and the incitement to sin; we have only to keep watch, then, to be humble, obedient, and charitable spiritually, to serve the Most High Lord, our Creator, with perfection. You men, on the other hand, have the painful and glorious possibility of being just-that is, of fighting against the incitements of the flesh and against temptations and concupiscences of every kind. This fight against what is evil forms your justice. The one who works with justice by triumphing over the tempting voices and tendencies of the human creature is, therefore, called Just.’ And man can thus be just.
    “If Jesus was, then, just, Jesus was a true man, exactly as, if He was born of a woman, He was a true man. For what is spiritual does not need a womb to form itself, and what is ghostly does not need a womb to take on an appearance.”

    “We angels manifest ourselves with the embodiment God gives us to make ourselves perceptible to your dull senses, when it is necessary to do so, but you see that generally it is not to the eyes located in the head that we present ourselves, but to spiritual sight, and we speak to your spiritual hearing, and that both, sight and hearing, enjoy this with the vividness which material eyes and ears would experience, and even more, for while the spirit sees and hears, it also rejoices over the peace we bear with us. The Saints whom the Lord Jesus sends when it is proper to do so appear thus. And always to whoever needs or deserves this. But they do so with no need to be reborn from a womb to form themselves and appear.”

    “Jesus, on the other hand, as a true Man, was born from a womb just like every other person born of man and became just through his will to serve the Most High Lord, as it is justice for every man to do.”

    “It is not up to me to combat the controversial theories on the Savior’s reactions to temptations and to what surrounded his Humanity. I shall only state that the heretics are quite wrong who deny Christ a true Humanity and the capacity to perceive what man’s sensation is, like those who through a misunderstood veneration of Christ make Him a Man in whom the perfect Holiness of God produced physical, moral, and spiritual insensitivity to all events.”

    “But He Himself, if He wishes, will speak on this. Let it suffice for you to understand that the words of the Introit are an affirmation of his true Humanity, just as in those of the Introit of the Holy Mass in the Octave of Epiphany there is an affirmation of the Divinity of the Man born of Mary. ‘On the sublime throne I saw a man seated, worshipped by multitudes of angels psalmodizing in chorus, “Here is the One whose rule is eternal.”‘ Who, except God, cannot remain on the throne of the heavens and be worshipped by angels, though a man? And who has eternal rule and is both God and Man, except Jesus Christ, the Savior? ”

    “The twofold Nature of the blessed Messiah is, then, established, of Christ the Redeemer, of Him who became incarnate to save you, and who has loved you to the point of death, and death on a cross, giving you his Blood as a lavacre and his Flesh as food, giving you Wisdom with his Word, and salvation through the infinite power of his love.”

    “Total love should be given to whoever loves totally. Whoever is not grateful does not have love. Whoever does not have love does not belong to God and to God will not return.”

    “Gratitude leads to loving not only the benefactor, but also all that forms the benefactor. Among men, isn’t there perhaps a tendency to take on the habits and thoughts of the one who is, or seems to be, the benefactor of an individual or a whole people? Yes, you act that way. And shouldn’t you, then, strive more carefully to take on what was in your true benefactor, Jesus. Clothe yourselves, therefore, as the Apostle says, with what clothed the Most Holy Word, who has chosen you to be his followers. Be holy. Love as you have been loved by God, love God in your neighbor, possessing mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, and patience, mutual forbearance and forgiveness, always considering that no one can call himself so perfect that he can tell himself, ‘I do not forgive because I don’t need forgiveness.'”

    “Jesus was entirely without defect and forgave everyone. God is Perfection, and yet He forgives whoever asks for forgiveness. Do not want to be more than the Savior and God. ”

    “Charity is the bond of perfection and the seal upon every creature. If charity is lacking, the creature does not have the seal which opens Heaven to him. The Tau is the sign of the redeemed; charity, the sign of the saints. You members of the Mystical Body must love as the Head of this Body loves. If you do not love, you do not remain in the Body and die like pieces of flesh which separate from what nourishes them and fall into atrophy and gangrene, with disturbance and pain, for whoever separates himself from the true Christ separates himself from Christ’s peace.”

    “The true Christ is not the ideal and idealized figure which has slowly been taking the place of the real one in too many consciences which, either individually or collectively, have formed for themselves, according to what pleases them, an unreal Christ that is nothing but the reflection of their very own thought, more or less removed from the truth. The true Christ is the one who appears alive in the Gospel, a giant of mortification, goodness, altruism, modesty, heroism, and unselfishness, a hero of love and pain, who would perform an action before saying to others, ‘Do this’, and who clearly stated, ‘Do what I do,’ ‘Be perfect,’ ‘Do not be greedy,’ ‘Do not fear for your lives.’ ”

    “This is the Christ. The poor Christ, the meek Christ, the humble Christ, the patient Christ, the tireless Christ, the willing Christ, the obedient Christ, the martyr Christ, the loving Christ. Not, indeed, the Christ from whom hatred or aestheticism or even quietism prunes away all the vigorous branches of what He is through spiritual action, material constitution, and self-mortification, so as not to have to say, ‘He was really great. He was ruggedly heroic. He was a powerful Master and Example. And we must imitate Him.’ ”

    “He is not the Christ diminished to artistic beauties, poetic actions, and placid episodes lying outside every struggle. He is the Strong One who works, wearies Himself, combats Satan and the evil tendencies of men, disfigures Himself in labor and suffering, and transfigures Himself from a Man into the Martyr of all martyrs, and from a martyr into the Divine Victor. ”

    “This is the Christ that a whole world has wanted to demolish for twenty centuries and has not managed to, that all the heresies and quietisms have wanted to alter, that all the unhealthy or imperfect adorations have tended to negate, believing they were confessing Him and were the only perfect and healthy ones. This is the Christ: God by Nature, Holy by will, Man by Birth. This is the Christ, the perfect Being in whom a trinity of perfections is brought together. The Perfection of God, the perfection of the Man, the perfection of the soul of the God-Man. In Christ, the Word-that is, God, like the Father. In Christ, the Man; in the Man, the soul full of Grace-that is, of Himself again. If God, always perfect, could be said to have once surpassed Himself, it could be said on contemplating the threefold perfection of the Divinity, the Humanity, and Grace brought together in Christ, in whom there is the superperfection of all that exists. ”

    “A God who generates from Himself his Only Son and who one day makes this Son a Man, without forcing the Divine to make use of a carnal will to give flesh to the Infinite. A Man who through love is formed like a diamond from the igneous heat of the depths. The love of the Divinity and the love of the Immaculate creature that unite and, in the furnace of charity, generate the Love of loves, the Redeemer of all mankind. And while the Immaculate One nurtures the First-Born in her inviolate womb, the Almighty creates for Him, at the proper moment, the perfect, unstained soul that can descend to merge opportunely into the Flesh, conceived by the will of the Eternal Spirit and creaturely obedience. And the God-Man is in the living Tabernacle worthy to host Him until the day of his birth. ”

    “This is the Christ who says to you, ‘Be as I am. Be perfect,’ and proposes Himself to you as a model, for He knows that you can imitate Him if you immolate yourselves completely to charity as He immolated Himself to Charity. For this is the secret of perfection and of imitation of Jesus Christ Our Lord: to be able to immolate oneself to love with Christ and like Christ, and for the same purposes as Christ did, according to his Word of doctrine, which is wisdom and grace and which He has given and gives you so that, together with the Sacraments, it will be the Way, the Truth, Life, and Light for you, as He is. ”

    “And-recalling the other epistle of the other Holy Mass-by doing so you will truly offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to the Lord, and it will be ‘your rational worship.’ That living worship which is not choreography or deceit, as are the things of the age, but true, continual reforming of the old man into the new man in the Christian, who is a son of God and brother of Christ-that worship which is renewal of the spirit that, after having distinguished good and evil by reason, and the will of the Lord, willingly repudiates evil and the will of the flesh, and weds its own will to God’s and follows God’s because it is good, pleasing, and perfect.”

    “By this ‘reasonable worship,’ which is true imitation of the Lord Jesus, you will really be living members in the living Mystical Body of Christ and in time and eternity will dwell in the house of the Lord and in his peace.”

    “Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit!”

42. The Woman Adorned With The Sun
    March 25, 1996 (Feast of the Annunciation)

    Jesus says:
    
    My beloved, come and learn: who has exalted Me most? I will tell you who exalted Me most: the New Eve has; yes! the Woman adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, with the twelve stars on Her Head for a crown; for I who made heaven and all that is in it, and earth and all it bears and the sea and all it holds have placed Her above all these things;

    the Queen of heaven is always in the presence of the Most High’s throne; no less than the height of heaven over earth is the greatness of Her Name; Her Name, wrapped in a robe of light; let the whole world bend their knee to Her who bears the Sacred Name:

    Mother of God;

    in her Immaculate womb She glorified Me by receiving Me, the unblemished Lamb, making a sanctuary for the Sanctuary; come and sing a new song in Her honour, let all who live on earth revere Her Immaculate Heart, the Altar in which I was conceived and became God-Man too; no one glorified Me as much as the Woman adorned with the sun;

    yes! She is so superbly beautiful in Her perfect Love that the islands the mountains, the hills, the valleys and the springs all bow low when She passes by them; and today as yesterday, when Most Fair Love passes over the earth, escorted by My Angels whose eyes never cease admiring the Admirable, Holiest of all Virgins, marveling at the Beauty of My Father’s Masterpiece, when She passes over the earth, She lovingly intervenes, and answers your entreaties;

    let Me tell you: My Sacred Heart is your heaven; creation, My Sacred Heart, that so many of you deny and refuse, is your Heaven; your Paradise, your Kingdom; your Inheritance, your Place-of-Rest for Eternity; so approach this Heart that loves you so and I will pour out, from My Heart, in your heart countless blessings, to turn your soul as fair as springtime, to turn your soul into an ivory tower, a heaven for Myself alone; how can anyone doubt of My Love? ah, beloved, every time you doubt of My Love, the sun darkens in My distress ….

    today, I want to display, in My great Love, the Heart of My Mother,

    “O Masterpiece of My Father! O Sublime Masterpiece of Yahweh! Spouse to My Holy Spirit! My Radiant Tabernacle! Your Heart, Beloved of the Beloved, is One with Ours! Your Heart is My enclosed garden, a sealed fountain; your Heart is a Fountain that makes the gardens fertile; your Heart, Adorable One, is My Throne, on which I have been honoured; Heart of the Heart, whom I crowned in Our presence and in the presence of all My celestial court, how can any of My creatures deny Your Heart? You, the Ark of power, all vested in virtues, My New Song, My Harp, My Citadel, in whom the Maker of heaven and earth is ravished by Your magnificence, You who stand in Our Presence, stand ever so close to all who invoke You; yet, how has man fallen so low and taken a deceptive path to deny Your Heart?”

    have you not heard, creation, that I am the Heart of Her Heart? the Soul of Her Soul, the Spirit of Her Spirit? have you not heard that Our Two Hearts are united in One? consider My Redemptive Heart, consider Her Co-Redemptive Heart, consider the Delight of My Heart, rising like the dawn to brighten the earth in its darkness, consider the Queen’s Heart that shines on mankind brighter in Her radiance than all the constellations put together; more resplendent than the sun; radiant as My Glory because of Her unique perfection; consider the Tabernacle of your God; consider and esteem highly as I esteem My Throne;

    do not ask: “how could it be that the Most High has assigned Her such a high throne in His Celestial Courts?” look, not only have I assigned Her as the Queen of My Angels and My creatures but I have assigned Her to be My Throne; the Queen of heaven and earth is the Throne of the King of kings, for I, the Lord of All, have placed Her as first in My Sacred Heart;

    born to be My Crown of Splendour, born to be the Vessel of the True Light who was made flesh from David’s line, born to be My honour and My boast, the Spirit with Me and the Father said:

    “Mary full of grace, We are with you; We will hide none of the secrets from You, Our Breath will be your breath, pure emanation of Our Glory, Mary, Our image of Our Goodness, We give you Our Peace in Your Heart; in this perfect Heart I, the Son, shall triumph; Our Heart will be Your Heart, a burning furnace of divine love; Our Soul will be Your Soul, an august treasure, a Paradise for Us; Our Spirit will be Your Spirit; yes, for anyone who is joined to Us is one spirit with Us;”

    this is the One whom We so highly favoured, the One whom so many reject and yet is the ointment of your eyes, the balm to your wounds, the merciful plea to the Eternal Father for your pleas; the intercessor and your advocate of your soul;

    feeble man …. the Spouse of My Holy Spirit is the Temple of the Temple, the promised land of the weak and the wretched, the reflection of My eternal Light; the consoler of Your Consoler is the comfort of your sorrows …. what has man to say? what can man say in his tent? how can he discover anything celestial in his perishable body when his soul is weighed down by sin, what the all-powerful Hand of My Father has done? you govern your mind, man, with no light, no sense;

    today, man, open your heart, then all the mysteries that appeared to you fathomless will be revealed to you by My Divine Light, thrice Holy, and you will understand who the Woman adorned with the sun is; then, your whole being will be lifted and your heart will be exulted and in rapture when your eyes will be unveiled to see the Blessed Heart of the blessed hearts, the Most Holy of saints, the Incomparable Heart, burning with unlimited love, a fire alight and so bright;

    then, My friend, you will understand what Virtue is, and how in this Virtuous Virginal Heart, I, God, became God-Man; you will see the Mother of your Saviour, Mother of the prophets, Mother of the disciples, Mother of charisms, Mother of Triumph, Mother of unlimited graces, Mother of unequalled Redemption; the Vineyard of the True Vine, the Path to the Path that leads everyone to Me, the Gate wide open to heaven for everyone to enter and have everlasting life;

    – have you not noticed how My Heart melts and favours always Her Heart? how can this Heart, who bore your King, be denied anything She asks from Me? all the faithful bless Her Heart for in blessing Her Heart you will be blessing Me;

    Queenly and adorable you will proclaim Her once you get to know Her; so lift your eyes, creation, at the sight of Her Heart and I promise you, you will never stop growing in radiance; your heart will be lifted in to the furnace of Her Heart, and, throbbing with delight and full, you will enter Her Heart as one entering an ocean of love, since the riches of Her Heart are as wide as the Sea that flows to you and you to this Sea; the Wealth of heaven and earth lie all in Her Heart and they can be all for you!

    though night still covers your mind and heart, arise! arise and lift your eyes at this radiant sight of Her Heart, that so many prophets wanted to see in their time, but had not seen It; arise and sing a new hymn to the Hymn of the Most Holy Trinity, sing and say: “brothers! sisters! come and be covered by the Mantle of Grace in Grace; come and be covered by the Queen’s Light; come, let us be overshadowed by the One who was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit;” have you not heard how the nations will come to Her Light and that the kings will come to Her dawning brightness, when in the end Her Heart will triumph together with Mine? mystery for the rich in heart, but for the poor and lowly a Blessing so longed for ….

    O come! before the floods of sin overtake you! come in this Ark that can save you; do not be like your ancestors in the days of Noah, who did not listen; come into the Ark and you will be saved from the tempestuous waters of sin, and from perishing in the floods of sin; come and become the promised child of the Mediatrix as a result of the devotion you would have had for Her;

    in your devotion for Her you will be devoting yourself to Me; every devotion, honouring Her Heart, will amplify and ascend on Me since Our union is so perfect; in your devotion for Her Heart, all My decrees will be better understood in Her Light, because your steps will be guided by Her Heart since your hand will be taken by the Throne of Graces Herself; how blessed you will be to repeat your devotion to Her Heart!

    come to the One, so Blessed, who shows Her Motherly Love to Her children by showing them the way to heaven; come to the Co-Redemptress of your Redeemer whose Heart, burning with Love, was offered to be pierced too for your sake; come and honour this Heart, alight as a Lamp, shining within and without near My Heart;

    if you say: “we have no use for Her Heart”, know that in reality you are saying: “we have no use for the Lord’s Heart!” learn, feeble man, that My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of your Mother are so united that in their perfect unity those Two Divine Hearts become One; I tell you solemnly: if you acknowledge Her Heart, not only will you be acknowledging My Heart but also the Father’s; have I not said that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? if I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, My Heart, too, is in the Father and His Heart is in Mine; to say that We are not inseparable and One, is to deny My Word; do not be the slave of your spirit and do not be won by the arguments of the world;

    tell Me, which creature’s heart is like unto Mary’s Heart? there is none like unto Mary’s Heart; perfect from the beginning, Immaculate from birth and full of Grace, surpassing in its grace My Angels’ graces; this is why My Angels in throngs questioned one another:

    “who is this, behind Her veil?”;

    “why are the crests of the mountains bowing down low, saluting Her, as She passes them by?”;

    “who is this without a blemish in Her Heart and so pleasing to God?”;

    “have you seen how all God’s creation lowers its gaze as She passes by?”;

    “who is She who is like a fountain that makes the gardens fertile by Her graces, this well of living water?”;

    “who is She, with a Heart so pure with divine love, aspiring for God day and night, night and day, and in perfect union with the Most High?”;

    “who is this Virgin who is so humble over Her great wealth of virtues and graces, that the supreme God’s Eyes never leave Her?”;

    many of My Angels remained silent in admiration, words had failed them ….

    it is in that Heart, in that Abyss of grace, I exercised My power; the Author of heaven and earth, the Author of grace found His heaven in heaven, His grace in grace, to come in the condition of a slave; I came to Prodigious Humility to serve and not to be served; I, the Redeemer of all mankind, the promised Messiah, came to the perfect image of My Sacred Heart to share the sorrows, the joys, the sufferings, the martyrdom, the wonders, the betrayals, the agonies, the scourging, the piercing, and the crucifixion; together, Our Hearts atoned;

    all the moments My Holy Mother spent on earth were a perfect hymn of love, charity, humility and purity; a treasure from My treasures; I came in this Holy Heart, image and likeness to My Sacred Heart, to become God-Man so that I follow Her steps and that later on She follows Mine; I have said that She and I shared everything all the way to the Cross;

    Our union was so intimately perfect that We did not need speech, for the sole utterance was in Our Heart; My words and My thoughts did not need to be carried to Her in My absence; in the supreme power of My Holy Spirit, everything was known to Her; in Her virginal Heart everything was known to Her, since She possessed God and God possessed Her; in this way Her daily nourishment was the Will of the Eternal Father;

    oh creation! My Soul is in utter dismay when so many of you deny Her Heart! and My Angels tremble for that day I will pronounce these people, guilty! but for those who honoured Her and loved Her, the Gate of Her Heart will be open for you to step into heaven; and I will say to you who love and honour Her: “come! your love for Her was so great on earth that today you may come to your room and before My Holy Temple bow down;”

    creation, this Great Sign in heaven, the Woman adorned with the Sun that holds the demons paralysed with fear, this Great Sign that illuminates the heavens terrifying the Darkness is none other than My Mother; in contrast to the darkness I raised this Most Holy Virgin to be for all of you a Pillar of blazing fire by night to guide your step, and by day a Sun to illuminate your dreadful gloom;

    – that day I was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Her virginal Womb, all the demons were paralysed with fright while in heaven at the same time a great throng of the heavenly host were praising God and singing: “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace to men who enjoy His favour;” thus, I descended from heaven to heaven, from My throne to My throne ….

    yes, where every virtue was blossoming, ravishing My Sacred Heart by the fragrance of Her perfect Love; My Perfect One’s Heart is unrivalled and altogether lovable … Her Heart, since Her Immaculate Conception was an incessant prayer, an atoning incense, an incessant adoration for God; this is My Vineyard whom My Father’s powerful Hand cultivated so that the True Vine puts His root in that soil;

    come to the Heart of your Blessed Mother, which is as bright as day; come and receive Her graces, which are so innumerable and that flash in rays from Her Hands; My Heart, which is full of grace and truth, was made flesh in the Virginal Womb full of grace and truth; and now, Our Two Hearts, joined in One, will conquer Bitter Plague, not by physical strength nor by force of arms, but by love and sacrifice;

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43. Jan 2, 2013 – St. Michael Archangel
    January 2, 2013
    Our Lady Queen of Angels Church – Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Newport Beach, California, at 7:30pm
    
    I am Michael the Archangel, the Prince of all Angels in the Heavenly Realms, and the persecutor of all of the fallen angels, who deserted the Lord and Father in Heaven for their own selfish desires to gain power over God’s creation. This is a story that you have learned from the ancient times, but it is a story that is now playing out in all of your lives in these modern times. Now is the time you have been warned about when the fallen angels through their leader, Lucifer, the damndest of all the fallen angels, are attempting to gasp their last breathes against all of humanity in the final battle of good versus evil, of light versus darkness.

    The story that is unfolding is not a fantasy or a fairy tale, as many disbelievers would want you to believe. The story is the story of all mankind from beginning to end as ordained by the Father in Heaven. However, the fallen angels have had their way with all of you here on Earth for too long now, and it is through the Father in Heaven that great changes are now taking place around the world, greater changes in these times than have ever been experienced by humanity.

    It is most important in these times that you recognize who the enemy is, for the Father in Heaven is asking all of you to join with the Father to defeat His enemies. Here on Earth through the centuries, many souls, who have fallen away from the Lord’s favor, have aligned themselves with the evil one, and they have literally sold themselves to the devil in return for great fortunes and successes, and most of all with a plan that is detrimental to all of humanity.

    These minions of the evil one have spent centuries oppressing the rest of you in ever increasing ways so that now in these End Times, these minions of evil have designed a plan of world domination that is opposite the plans of the Father in Heaven for each and every one of you. Through secrecy and stealth in their secret societies and organizations, they have plotted and planned a conspiracy against all of God’s children, and the fruits of their efforts through all of the centuries are seemingly about to come to fruition, or so they believe.

    If they were to be successful in their plans, all of humanity would be subjugated to an existence of slavery with the minions of evil having power and control over all of you. Fortunately, many of you have awoken to their plans and have been inspired to inform and lead your brothers and sisters to resist these evil plans to subjugate and control all of you.

    It is time now for all of you to take a stand against this insidious plan which the minions of evil have come to call the New World Order, for this order is not new, it is ancient and demonic, and against the plans of the Father in Heaven.

    Although these greedy and sinful followers of the evil one have made great strides in their attempts to control you, their plans are going to be soundly defeated despite their great efforts.

    You must be attuned to the fact that evil has taken over your global institutions, particularly in your banking systems, and they are using this system to control all nations and all peoples. They have gained control through their banking systems of virtually all countries in the world. Those who are resisting their plans are called terrorists, and you are led to believe that their enemies are your enemies. They have gained control of the leaders of these nations, and the politicians in every nation to the point that they are now dictating their demands to all of the nations of the world through their control over your banking systems.

    You must be warned that they are about to launch dark and sinister events globally to negatively impact all of the peoples of the world in a final attempt to enforce a dark and draconian control over the rest of you.

    I am here to tell you that they will not succeed in their plans, for the Father in Heaven is directly interceding in the affairs of mankind through His Son, the Redeemer of the world, and the followers of the evil one will be exposed and punished for their deeds against the Father in Heaven.

    I am telling you now that you must be vigilant in these times so that you can identify these enemies of the Father in Heaven and their evil plans to subjugate and control all of you.

    You are now entering a very dark period for humanity, while these minions are exposed and defeated. Great and terrible events will happen in the future because of their evil work, but those of you who are aligned with the Father in Heaven will not be defeated by their plans, for the Father in Heaven will see to it that they fail in their plans.

    So it is very important now that you all become powerful and prayerful warriors of the Lord during these End Times, when the evil one and his minions will be cast into the bowels of darkness for eternity. Thanks Be To God!
    
    Message ended 7:54pm

    St. Michael the Archangel

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44. Virgin Mary: Not all will accept freedom. Many will side with the evil one and reject my Son
    On January 2, 2013 @ 4:29 pm
    
    My child, much will now unfold in the world and many events are necessary, in order to purify God’s children.

    It is important that the hearts of all are opened to the Truth, the Holy Word of God. If they do not open their hearts, they will not be able to accept the Truth of my Son’s promise to humanity.

    He will come again, and soon, to redeem His Kingdom on Earth. It will be prised away from the evil grip of Satan. All of God’s children will be offered the freedom they need to become one with my Son.

    Not all will accept freedom. Many will side with the evil one and reject my Son. They will be so weak that they will not accept His Promise and will continue to pursue worldly ambitions.

    I ask you children to be generous towards these souls. They will, not only reject my Son’s Mercy, they will harass and sneer at all those brave souls, who will stand up and proclaim the Truth of God.

    Keep in daily prayer, children, and then hand over any fears you may have to my Son. He loves you and wishes to unburden you of such sorrow and pain. Come to me, your beloved Mother, and I will ask Him to make you stronger in your allegiance to Him.
    
    Your Beloved Mother
    Mother of Salvation

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45. The Holy Spirit on Wars and Disasters
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    PART I
    June 12, 1953 – Feast of the Sacred Heart

    THE HOLY SPIRIT says:
    On this same feast three years ago, when the war in Korea was about to break out, I already said how strongly disturbed and troubled is the Divine Justice toward all of Humanity for its way of acting. And I announced to you, that because of this, terrible chastisements would have descended upon the Earth. The facts: floods, cyclones [hurricanes], earthquakes with victims and disasters everywhere, have confirmed My statement. But today I repeat to you that Divine Justice is at the limit of its tolerance.

    Do not blame what is happening on anything else but the piling up of sins of every kind being committed always more on Earth. [They are] horrible sins against the Faith, the Church, good morals; unnamable vices—compared to which adultery is still a small thing; hatred and desire of death against the Church and the Priesthood; crimes, sacrileges in actions and words—and I could continue endlessly. These things—and nothing else—are the cause of the misfortunes that have happened until now, and also of future [misfortunes], always more grievous, which will befall the Earth and Humanity because of the always more grievous faults committed.

    If you can find again [Maria] what I said in 1950, recopy it here. And pray, and urge prayer, that this corruption of Humanity may cease, if one wants to avoid frightful catastrophes. I am Wisdom and Truth, and I know what is to happen.

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    PART II
    June 16, 1950 – Feast of the Sacred Heart

    What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So it depends not upon man’s will or exertion, but upon God’s mercy. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing My power in you, so that My Name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then He has mercy upon whomever He wills, and He hardens the heart of whomever He wills. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? —Romans 9:14-18

    THE HOLY SPIRIT says:
    No one, without becoming sacrilegious or showing himself an unbeliever, can arrogate to himself [the right] to make observations to God or [give] Him orders —even if the way in which God deals with individuals, nations, or all humanity, seems unjust to him.

    For, truly those who do not believe that something can be from God unless they see a divine manifestation, imitate the fault of the apostle Thomas [Jn 20:19-29]—the fault of a man not yet confirmed in faith in the Christ4, but rather shaken in that faith by the capture and ignominious death of the Christ.

    They therefore repeat the unpardonable and unpardoned fault of the Pharisees, high Priests, Scribes, or anyone who, in order to believe, and in the moment of the consummation of the greatest sacrifice of God’s love— Who is infinite Charity—demanded that Christ should descend from the Cross and save Himself. Nor would that have then sufficed for them, since they would have said: “He did it because He is a satan, and Beelzebul helped Him” [Matt 12:24].

    No one can make observations or [give] orders to God. Because God is God. And all—persons and things past, present and future—are a nothing compared to Him: One and Triune, Immense, Perfect, in all His Three Persons and in His marvelous Unity, as in His Attributes and Acts.

    There is no other God outside of Him: the Father God, Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth, First Person of the Most Holy Triad, Who was begotten by no one, because [He is] Eternal. And, by divine generation, He begot [generated] from Himself, His Word—by means of Whom all things have been made—the Second Person, divine, eternal, immense, perfect, equal in all to the First [Person] Who takes pleasure in Him, just as the Son takes pleasure in the Father Who has begotten Him. And this double [mutual] pleasure is the origin of the Holy Spirit Who proceeds from the Father and the Son and is Their very Love Itself. [He is] the knot that tightens Them, the embrace that unites Them, and the fire that fuses Them without creating confusion of Persons. And He is the peace in which They work untiringly and rest together in Love, through Love and with Love; Which proceeds from Them, and Which is the greatest attribute and very essence of God.

    He, God, being Love, cannot but be also Justice. Because only one who does not love can be unjust toward his fellows, or to his children and brothers. But one who loves is always just, and even though recognizing that the actions of another are unjust—because not to recognize them as such, if they be [unjust], would not be goodness but foolishness—He is just also in punishing them. [In this way He is] neither excessive in severity nor in indulgence, but acting in the measure that the fault demands.

    God loves. He loves His children as a Father—as Jesus, the God-Man, [loves] His brothers. Hence God is always just, in punishing as in rewarding.

    And when from the lips of incarnate Wisdom there came forth the Gospel counsels: “Do what, and as, I have done. Be perfect as your Heavenly Father” [Matt 5:48]—the Word was urging [you] to this perfection of a loving justice: to the perfect Justice of the Father and of the Son made Man. [He was urging you] to that justice, namely, which does not favor any side: neither from pressures nor for gifts, nor for friendship nor [blood] relationship: but it judges, absolves, or condemns, with a spirit that transcends every material or earthly thing, as it should.

    To be just with one’s neighbor is still more difficult than to be a lover of God. Because God is good, and it is easy to love someone who is good.

    Because God is comfort, and it is easy to love someone who comforts and consoles. Because God is a support, and it is easy to love someone who supports. And because God is forgiveness, and it is easy to love someone who forgives.

    But a neighbor is often bad and unjust; and ready to hurt you and to increase your pain with his incomprehension, obstinacy, ridicule and hardness. And he easily abandons you if you are oppressed or unhappy—when he doesn’t become an accomplice of someone who already oppresses you, so he may oppress and hurt you still more. It is hard for him to forgive, even when he unjustly thinks he was offended or damaged by you, although you are innocent. And it is very hard for him to forgive when he is [indeed] provoked by your fault. To love him, therefore, is difficult.

    But it is said: “Love those who hate you and you will be sons of the Most High” [Matt 5:44-45]. Why? Because you will have perfect love: the greatest image and likeness of God. Just as any son assimilates the life which his father transmits to him through his seed, and the inherited physique from his father is ineffaceable—whether in his blood, appearance, character, or name —so [it will be] for all of you: if you assimilate the chief attribute of God— the one that is His essence: [love]—you thus take into yourselves the very Life of God. You live for Him and in Him, and you become His true sons, not through an equality of nature and substance, but through a supernaturalizing of the creature, which thus becomes divinized through a relative participation in the actions of God, One and Triune, and through its likeness [to God] by doing what He does always: by loving.

    God says to Moses: “I will have mercy…. I will have compassion….” [Exod 33:19]. But His mercy and compassion did not begin from that moment. Although united to divine justice, [these attributes] were already alive in Eden, before the two Transgressors were condemned in time with work, suffering, fatigue, exile, and death. But [they were] forgiven for eternity with the promise of the Redemption, and by means of the Redemption [Gen 3: 14-20].

    [There is] still more: that mercy and compassion [of God] were alive before the existence of man, whose future Fault was not unknown to his Creator. God created man in order to give him Heaven, sonship, and divine likeness, [even] while knowing that man, who ought to be holy, was already destined to be—of his own will—a sinner, a rebel, transgressor, thief, a homicide, violent, a liar, lecherous, sacrilegious, an idolator—all the evil human tendencies present in him by human consent. And above all, God created man while knowing he was capable at one time of killing His Word—Who for man’s sake had assumed [man’s] Humanity—and of wounding that Word with his sins times without number, as the grains of sand that form the sea bed; and doing so from [the time of] the Word’s redemptive coming until the end of the ages. This [foreknowledge] gives the exact measure of the infinite mercy and compassion of God.

    From eternity God looked at His Word, and His eternal Thought, considered all the things He had created through the Word. Jubilantly He admired in His thought the numberless beauties and marvels of the Creation, which had been made through the Word at the proper moment. But at the same time, the Father of lights saw that creative poem of all light and goodness, staining itself with a disfiguring, poisonous stain: the origin of every fault and disaster.

    As one who marvels and pauses to contemplate a place of delights, of all balms and flowers, of pure water and the songs of birds, and then trembles with horror upon seeing come out of it a poisonous and aggressive serpent which breaks, bites and kills plants and animals, and corrupts the water and the flowers—so the Father of the Word and of man, contemplating from eternity the future Creation in which all would have been created “good” [Gen 1:1-31], saw the Serpent attack, corrupt and poison everything, bringing suffering [to this Creation]. He saw fallen man, and He saw Cain, killer of Abel [Gen 4:1-16] and figure of another Cain (Israel) who would kill the new Abel: His Word [Jn 11:45-53].

    Before such knowledge, even the holiest of men—if they had not hated— would at least have felt indifference rise up [in them] for the ungrateful, uselessly benefited, squanderer of the benefits received.

    But God—No. God knows all. But His mercy and compassion do not change nor weaken. Rather they are born precisely through this eternal knowledge. And [His mercy and compassion] decree that, since Man and men will be sinners, homicides of their eternal part [the soul] and of their brothers: in order to make them “living”, “sons” and “co-heirs” again, it is necessary to sacrifice the Son.
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    He will be the Son of Man, the faithful and most holy Adam, the Abel and the Lamb immolated by the deicide Cains. And from the first Fault and the second Fault—that of Eden and that of the Temple [Jn 11:45-53]—will come the Redemption.

    And God will be compassionate and merciful with whom He wills. That is, with all those who, in their turn and with good will, want to be “sons of God”, having welcomed the Christ [the “Messiah”] with love, and followed and practiced the commandments and instructions of the divine Word.

    God draws good from all things, always.

    From the Fault of Adam, He drew the good of the Redemption—the measure of the divine Charity which is infinite and most perfect. He drew the confirmation of His infinite power, justice and goodness, from the stubbornness of Pharaoh toward the divine orders which Moses, His servant, transmitted to the Egyptian monarch [Exod 7:8 – 12:34]. Thus, through the plagues that struck Egypt, and through the killing of the first-born, and of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, Pharaoh knew that God is the Lord. And the People of God also knew it, through those prodigies which confirmed them in their faith in the Only God, in their God.

    From the fault of Israel—the crucifier of His incarnate Word—God drew the blessed certainty of the Resurrection of the flesh and of the eternal Jerusalem, where the spirits of the just ascend, and where later the flesh of the just will be reunited to their spirits, for an eternal life of joy.

    From all, the Most Good draws good things. It is only necessary that man, with his good will, should know how to draw his good from all that God does. How? By not rebelling, and by not estranging himself from his Heavenly Father, if His hand is heavy and His chalice bitter.

    You are sinners. All of you. Even the best are imperfect. Jesus was innocent, holy, perfect [Heb 7:26]. And yet the Father loaded upon Him the whole weight of the faults of men, so that it consumed Him on Golgotha. And He presented to Jesus the bitterest chalice [Lk 22:42]—more bitter than the bitterness of all that is disgusting: from the abandonment of His Father [Matt 27:46], to the suffering of His Mother; from the betrayal of a friend and apostle, to the cowardice of the other apostles; and from the denial of His Cephas [Matt 26:69-75], to the ingratitude of the people. Among men, no one has borne nor will bear the burden, nor will drink the chalice which crushed and embittered the Christ: the Innocent.

    Hence, know how to imitate Him—in His perfect good will, and in His most holy obedience—in order to draw your good from all that God permits to befall you, to test you and to reward you.
    
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46. This is possibly the longest running thread I have ever seen. Georgy should get some sort of award.

    1856 posts…wow! :)

    It is now the 5th of Jan. 2013. This thread was started in 2008. That’s nearly five yrs!

47. Hello Eddie,

    May I know who was the source ( visionary/ mystic )of your article # 1853? I find it very interesting! It will be more helpful if you can give me detailed nfo for my research and study.

    Your kind attention is appreciated.

    Ave Maria!

48. Never Give Up On Each Other

    “My child you grow weary of the persecution. You stand strong but you also stand angry. You must control the human emotion of anger. It is not of Me.

    Although your discernment is correct regarding your colleague, you must be patient and also call on the Holy Spirit before speaking or reacting to his punches.

    Remember child he is also My child and that it is I who is taking his punches.

    My mercy is great and extends to all My children.

    He will have to use his free will and come to Me willingly and I will give him absolution and grace. Continue to pray for him as his heart is heavily burdened and delusion will overtake him should he not turn his heart back to Me.

    All will have the chance to return from whence they came but they must do it with the use of their free will by choosing life over death, which is choosing Me over this world.

    There is no sin that I will not forgive from a pure, remorseful and sorrowful heart. My mercy is for all. Tell My children. Reassure them that I am all loving, all forgiving, all merciful.

    Tell them child. Show them My love. Tell all My followers to become beacons of light. Of My light.

    Allow My love to flow from your eyes and your hearts so those of Mine wandering aimlessly in the dark will find their way back into the fold. Love My children back home. Show them the way with Holy love filled with mercy.

    Don’t be angry at their lack of understanding or their unwillingness to understand. Instead love them and guide them through example. Love one another. Do you understand?

    Yes, I want you to stand up for truth and righteousness. Yes, I want you to correct the distortion of My Word done by mankind being prompted by unpure spirits when man does not exercise his free will for the good. Instead he accepts the evil prompts willingly and blasphemies and curses and distorts My Words. You allow yourself to become angry because it is offensive to you because it is offensive to Me. You understand how this re-opens My wounds and how much agony I again suffer.

    But child, if I am the one suffering and I forgive completely, can you not also be merciful and still love your brethren? When you are not merciful to one another. When you are unforgiving of one another you also re-open My wounds. Do you understand child?

    In order for My crucifixion to cease, you must all love one another. Send love back and forth to one another. Do you understand child?

    I am speaking clearly so all will open their hearts, not their minds and understand what they must do.

    Tell My children.

    Tell them over and over and over and over if you must. Never give up on each other. Love one another back to the Heavenly Kingdom.

    Think on My Words child. Use the gifts I have given you and understand My meanings.

    Your Father in Heaven”

    This message give us ‘Faith, Hope and Charity’please share the message to your love ones and friends as well as foes.

    Jesus king of mercy i trust in you!

    Ave Maria!

    ( Btw, the message started from my friend Larry Wolfe ).

49. #1858

    Hi Christine Marie,

    #1853 – from pages 274-278 (Notebook 83) of the book “True Life in God – Volume II”

    ISBN 971-08-6748-2

    First edition in two volumes of the True Life in God messages as given to Vassula Ryden from 1986 to 2003.

    Printed in 2006.

    Published by:
    The Foundation for True Life in God
    Geneva, Switzerland

    – eddie

50. Love all those who persecute you, in My Name. Then pray for them
    On January 2, 2013 @ 8:00 pm
    
    My dearly beloved daughter, you must inform all of My followers that their prayers will help to mitigate much of what has been foretold.

    Prayer is so powerful, that if enough of the prayers I give to the world, through the Crusade Prayers, are said, that much of the difficult tribulation can be curtailed.

    I also must point to the power of forgiveness. When you are persecuted, in My Name, you must pray for those souls who torment you. When you pray for them, from the heart, I will cover them with your love. When you pray for your enemies, you delay Satan’s mission to take souls away from Me.

    My daughter, I must now instruct you, and My followers, to remain calm in the face of much opposition to these Messages. You must never fear the Word of God, even when it brings you much pain from the outside world.

    Do not think that My Kingdom is easy to enter. For each of you who truly loves Me, there will be one or two more people tempted to stop you in your allegiance to Me. This has been the case since My Death on the Cross. It will remain this way until My Second Coming.

    My disciples will attract those souls who seek Me out. My disciples will then embrace these souls, so that My followers will swell to become one, in union with Me. It will never be without suffering, this lonely pathway to My Kingdom.

    When they throw accusations at you, think of My own journey to Calvary. Think of My silence, and the dignity of simply focusing on My sole objective, to save souls, for every second you endure ridicule, in My Name.

    This will make your journey more bearable. Let your detractors scream abuse; let them call you a fool; let them declare My Messages to be heresy. For when you do this, their wicked tongues will have no power over you.

    Love all those who persecute you, in My Name. Then pray for them. And when you forgive them, you will destroy the power which Satan holds over them.

    This is the secret of humility.
    
    Your Jesus

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